As someone who worked for a road department, we did actually. There's a service we contracted out that would go over every square inch of the roadway with cameras, and gave us an extremely detailed report of the health of the roadway, alongside any major problems.
I don't know why people are downvoting OP, he's absolutely correct. A functional government would be a government where you don't need to contact the mayor, instead being able to submit any and all problems conveniently through a road dept's website and/or phone/email.
Not when they are doing a good job and getting stuff done. There's plenty of real criticism to be had, I'm sure, but digging in to criticize stuff getting fixed is wild
User reports are all well and good, but will always be inherently reactive. We should always be looking to be proactive whenever possible. Whether that’s feasible here or not, I don’t know. But I suspect mapping something like that could be done in an efficient manner with proper planning.
Patching potholes is always reactionary and cant be proactive unless you rip up all 6300 miles and replaxe it with AsplatX which doesnt crack and isnt possible
I’ll admit I don’t know the science behind potholes, but surely there are ways to predict where they are likely to occur? There’s also just active monitoring for them rather than passively waiting for some citizen to report it.
What I do know is that relying on user feedback alone is so insanely error prone and it should never be a first resort for managing anything. It can be an important signal, it should not be the only signal. People will often assume something has been reported by someone else, and ultimately nobody has reported it. Or nobody has reported it to the right channel.
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u/Wickedocity 9h ago
Progress would be having a government that functions without having to contact a mayor.