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[–] NewApocalypse [score hidden] 49 minutes ago
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[–] Hiei2k7 [score hidden] 14 minutes ago

Heard SNC Lavalin was working on it...
[–] mckenziebros [score hidden] 34 minutes ago

If Montreal did that then the mob wouldn't be able to charge
the government to fill them in again every spring.
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[–] rudekoffenris [score hidden] 18 minutes ago
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[–] frankank [score hidden] 1 minute ago 168 · 195 comments
Agreed. The -10°C -> Below 0°C -> -10° -> +0° on and on and on Quebec authority figures (cops, public school
teachers, principals) to be banned from
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[–] asharkey3 [score hidden] 48 minutes ago

At least there's a bandaid now for when the gov over there figures out how to do it themselves.
[–] TjPshine [score hidden] 29 minutes ago

And you cant take work away from the unions
[–] dsolimen [score hidden] 2 hours ago
“Kind of like the mob?”
More like the head family.
[–] OutToDri [score hidden] 5 minutes ago
I almost thought I was in r/Libertarian.

[–] Balis x [score hidden] 5 hours ago
That's not the last line. You should click first before trying to save others a click lol.
[–] the_ham_guy [score hidden] 2 hours ago
Uh..,, that is not in the article anywhere. It is in the picture that we can all see from here. You didnt save anyone a click
[–] feyrune [score hidden] 2 hours ago

Saved himself a click by not clicking on the article.
[–] Vynxe-Vainglory [score hidden] 2 hours ago

Lol yeah that’s the most ironic “click saver” I’ve seen yet.
[–] 5panda [score hidden] 4 hours ago

They thought it was the last line of the sign that was being referred to.
[–] the_cheeky_monkey [score hidden] 11 hours ago
Great 'civil disobedience' Reminds me of drawing penises around potholes

[–] lordhugh [score hidden] 2 hours ago
Did that force them to fix it?

[–] AvroLancaster [score hidden] 2 hours ago
In the UK, yeah. People would call to complain about the penises, and so they'd remove them and fill the pothole.
[–] Henojojo [score hidden] 16 minutes ago
Genius.
[–] Roofofcar [score hidden] 6 minutes ago

Civil engineering disobedience
[–] MondoBob [score hidden] 11 hours ago

Bless him.
[–] Johnmccue [S] [score hidden] 11 hours ago
Thank you 😇
[–] stygian65 [score hidden] 9 hours ago
OP is that you?
Yes, took me 5.5 hours to fill all the holes in that little section of road
[–] RonnieFuckster [score hidden] 7 hours ago
Dude I've seen you around hula hooping. Cheers man

[–] stygian65 [score hidden] 9 hours ago

Bless you.
[–] droidconnect [score hidden] 5 hours ago

Great job! We need more people like you to get road issues done faster! cheers!
[–] BigFish8 [score hidden] 2 hours ago
It's nice they took action, but now if their repair leaves the road in worse condition after and wrecks peoples vehicles?
[–] SquishedPeter [score hidden] 2 hours ago
LOL, you are obviously not Nova Scotian.

[–] helloitsmesatan [score hidden] 2 hours ago

The potholes in Nova Scotia are so bad they're already wrecking people's vehicles all the time. So at this point we
have nothing to lose by letting him fix them since he's the only one doing so.
[–] Praetorian_Prefect [score hidden] 40 minutes ago
As if the people hired by the city to fix the potholes were brain surgeons..
[–] bcams [score hidden] 13 minutes ago
The road workers in Cape Breton have it down to a system, whenever they do fix the roads they do a half ass
job so they have to do it again and again. Job security hahaha
[–] Bone-Juice [score hidden] 1 hour ago

How would filling a pot hole with gravel leave the road in a worse condition? If the guy were using concrete I can
see a possible issue, but gravel??
Some of them are damaging vehicles now, filling the hole with gravel should only make the situation better.
[–] Ok_Applica on_404 [score hidden] 4 hours ago

We need you in every major city. Ottawa is a shitshow right now. Lol.
[–] CourtneyChaos [score hidden] 7 hours ago
The kind of person that takes action! We need more of you <3! Good job OP.. you don't even drive?! That's amazing that
you had the perspective to see how annoying that'd be for a driver - it wasn't even "your" problem.
Stay amazing dude
[–] OhHelloPlease [score hidden] 2 hours ago

Username checks out.
[–] Lavaskull01 [score hidden] 6 hours ago

Ive wanted to do this around my home town in southern ont because some holes have been there since i was a kid & have
never been fixed
[–] SniperXPX [score hidden] 2 hours ago
Come to Newfoundland and fill in our potholes!

[–] killstreakblues [score hidden] 2 hours ago
I second this
[–] SaltyBumblebee [score hidden] 1 hour ago

You're doing what many of us have thought of doing! I drive through Stellarton and New Glasgow a lot, I'll have a tip ready
if I see you.
[–] Mithorium [score hidden] 1 hour ago
did they come get you before or after you finished filling them?
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[–] weschester [score hidden] 3 hours ago
We need you out here in Calgary man. I dont think we have people who know what to do with potholes lol
[–] Mackelsaur [score hidden] 2 hours ago
I, too, hope they don't come get you until you're done with this.
[–] kaseyyeahh [score hidden] 5 hours ago*
As someone in pictou county YOU GO DUDE.

Our roads are such shit. That spot hes at right there is FUCKING BAD. Everyone slows down to ten to creep through it. It's bad
bad bad bad bad. Exit 22? Has a GIAAAAAAANT pothole on the on ramp that is getting harder and harder to avoid.
They repair the holes shittily and they're tore back up in months. Maybe if they did a good job this wouldnt fucking be needed.
Maybe if they did their job AT ALL this guy wouldnt need to
[–] Bind_Moggled [score hidden] 33 minutes ago

Has there been any explanation from the govt agency responsible for fixing the holes why it's gotten so bad that random
citizens feel the need to do their jobs for them?
Also, why didn't the CBC reporter ask this question of said agency?
[–] HonestAbed [score hidden] 9 hours ago
On the one hand, he's clearly not doing a professional job, more of a temporary fix that will cause the pros to do a bit of extra
work when they get around to it, on the other hand, it's better than no fix?
[–] kaseyyeahh [score hidden] 5 hours ago

Ffs the patch job they do is barely professional and will be tore the fuck back up in months
Literally live there. The repair jobs they do on the roads here are fucking SHIT. Theres a HUUUUGE pothole in the offramp by
the big stop that's been there forever they fill it in yearly and it's a hole again shortly after.
[–] Oreoloveboss [score hidden] 4 hours ago
I can attest to that. The patch jobs they do in Cape Breton are absolute garbage. They just shovel a bunch into the hole and
use some kind of handheld machine to flatten it. After a couple of days it sinks in by a couple of inches (like the one they just
did outside my office). It is just as hard to drive over as the original pothole, and by the end of the year it's gone.
[–] HelpMeImTed [score hidden] 4 hours ago*
You mean throwing in one shovel of cold patch and walking away isn't how to repair potholes? Hmm....
Edit: I shouldn't complain too much. There is a road where I live that was torn up two years ago and repaved. Now they have
torn it up again to replace the utility mains.
[–] thingpaint [score hidden] 2 hours ago
Where I live they just shovel cold patch into the pot holes, don't even bother to tamp it down. Most of it probably ends up on
the bottoms of people's cars.
[–] jdicaire [score hidden] 1 hour ago

Just moved to Quebec. I thought the terrible roads were a running gag but no every day during my morning commute there’s a
new hole in the ground. It’s absolutely horrible.
[–] IcollyI [score hidden] 7 hours ago
Or he made them take notice faster ... Its now in the news so they'll bother to finally fix it, and pretty sure they would have to
empty the pot holes before filling them anyway
[–] Ragnar_Dragonfyre [score hidden] 2 hours ago
Considering I'm still driving over potholes on the 401 that were formed in the winter of 2017, I'd be thankful for any attempt to
fill in these ever growing car destroyers.
Seems like we've run out of money to fill them in.
[–] swabfalling [score hidden] 25 minutes ago
Not so much run out of money as the fact that potholes aren't sexy, cutting red ribbon type stuff for city hall or MPPs
[–] nutscyclist [score hidden] 4 hours ago
Man, Nova Scotia's so fucked that the job the "professionals" they hired through nepotism to do doesn't even last a week, I shit
you not. Literally 3 days after getting filled in, a big sucker on my commute to school was right back in business.
[–] lilvipa [score hidden] 2 hours ago
Great point.
[–] HonkHonk [score hidden] 2 hours ago
The pros will just throw cold patch on top, the gravel is a temporary fix for now.
[–] noreally_bot1461 [score hidden] 1 hour ago
When they get around to it, the "pros" will simply patch it -- by tossing in some gravel and some temporary asphalt on top.
They won't get around to properly resurfacing it until the summer road repair season starts -- when they block off the entire
exit and inconvenience everyone.
[–] Cinderheart [score hidden] 4 hours ago
Oh the other hand...that's the official way to do it anyways.

ITT; People not from Atlantic Canada who haven't seen what the roads look like East of Onterrible
[–] Snow-Wraith [score hidden] 10 hours ago
RCMP had already stopped to tell him that he was impeding traffic
At least this guy is actually working when he's impeding traffic. I've driven through plenty of construction sites that impeded
traffic only to see no one working at all. Road works is such a joke. Last time they did work on my road they started with
sweeping and painting the lines, then filled potholes and cracks which covered up the lines, then dug up and replaced 1km of
the road, even though they could have gone a little further at either end, and haven't bothered to repaint the lines 3 years
later. Which isn't so bad because the temporary dashes they use last longer than the paint anyways.
[–] JackONhs [score hidden] 3 hours ago
I did flagging and labor for a season in Ontario. It is a joke from our side too. We can only move as fast as our slowest machine
on the job, and we spend a lot of time double checking things before we do them, because mistakes are fucking expensive.
I'd say of a 12 hour day, at any site, we get 6 hours of raw work done, and 4 hours is people waiting around for another
machine or truck to get to the site. The rest is us standing around hating our lives while trying to patch up a section that we
just did a few minutes ago because someone didnt listen to the signs and drove on it.
[–] Moddejunk [score hidden] 3 hours ago

I'd say of a 12 hour day, at any site, we get 6 hours of raw work done
I mean, people bitch about this but it's the case in most jobs. Many of those people driving by road workers are on their way to
office jobs where they will be doing pretty much the same amount of nothing.
[–] -Yazilliclick- [score hidden] 3 hours ago
Nuh uh, I'm working really hard right now. Reddit comments aren't going to read themselves!
[–] Ragnar_Dragonfyre [score hidden] 2 hours ago
Yeah but in this case, the people doing the bitching are paying directly for this roadwork through taxes.
We have a right to bitch about highly paid construction workers standing around for 6 hours a day.
Unless you regularly patronize a private business, what business is it of yours what their workers do?
[–] FatalDosesOfOsmosis [score hidden] 51 minutes ago
"Don't judge me. I can be a lazy employee all I want, but I PAY TAXES gosh darn it! Government employees better work
harder!"
[–] Ragnar_Dragonfyre [score hidden] 36 minutes ago
A private business who's workers fuck the dog will go out of business.
Public sector workers/contractors who fuck the dog never go out of business. We just raise taxes to compensate for the
waste.
[–] JackONhs [score hidden] 53 minutes ago
Well paid? I was making minimal wage to go stand out in the sun, rain and bugs all day. Your tax dollars stop moving
somewhere between my boss, his contracting company and its investors. And if you can find a way to make the 72 trucks
full of torn up road move as fast to a holding site and back as the rotomill tears it up, be my guest. But us guys on the
ground can't do fuck all about that, so we wait and kick dirt till they sort it out.
[–] Ragnar_Dragonfyre [score hidden] 38 minutes ago
If you were making minimum wage on a construction crew, you were getting ripped off for your labour.
100% I was. But I was living in a small town with no jobs. Wasn't another option other then 2 shifts a week
overnight at the Tim's.
[–] granger744 [score hidden] 4 minutes ago

Were you working through a temp agency?
Nope. Directly employed by the company.

[–] TheEggEngineer [score hidden] 3 hours ago

Hahaha I just imagine someone going "goddarn dam roaed worker s doien notheng" as he drives on a blocked off place.
[–] JackONhs [score hidden] 1 hour ago
Where I was it was usually tourists from places with laxer road laws and an inability to read a sign in English. So it probably
went something more like. "You is leaf lawn? What is you is leaf lawn? Must be something to go take pictures of. "
As their rental car tears through the closure after wrecking 3 pylons and the use left lane sign.
[–] Albiz [score hidden] 3 hours ago

I think the issue is he's doing road work without the correct protection. What if a car doesn't divert in time, and hits another
car and causes an injury? The blame would fall on the police not enforcing the road regulations.
[–] Daxx22 [score hidden] 1 hour ago
Same if the pothole is filled incorrectly, and leads to an accident. This is about legal liability, nothing more.
[–] TheBatJeff [score hidden] 3 hours ago
according to the RCMP, any roadwork is best left to professionals.

Ok. Fair. So maybe the fucking professionals should do the work before a pedestrian gets so fed up they do it themselves.
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[–] Ricky_RZ [score hidden] 9 hours ago

WTF? So having a construction crew sit on their asses for 3 hours and shutting down 3 lanes is fine. But his guy actually doing
good work is “impeding traffic?”
[–] elligirl [score hidden] 8 hours ago
Yes. Because he needs to be safe and so do the drivers. That requires signage, flaggers, and co-ordination with the city.
The holes are not safe. I live in Halifax now, used to live in BC, and some of the major roads in the city here resemble logging
roads in BC. There's a pothole near my house that my entire car fits in, all 4 wheels, that dips down up to 12" deep. When it's
full of water people unfamiliar with it hit it at 50kmph and get in accidents (there have been 3 since February that I was home
for).
Pothole season in Nova Scotia is insanely unsafe. Anyone fixing them deserves credit.
[–] going_there [score hidden] 5 hours ago
Oh, but the city is being safe by allowing giant potholes to sit unrepaired in the middle of the road? Let me know if you're
opinion is still the same after you get a flat tire from a pothole in the road that you never could have seen coming without
daylight
[–] spanktravision [score hidden] 4 hours ago
Every tire destroying pothole I've ever hit has been in broad daylight. Fuck winter, and fuck New England.
[–] pedal2000 [score hidden] 3 hours ago

Should we be trying to fix every pot hole every year? I am sure they have an annual budget and rotate.
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[–] inverted180 [score hidden] 3 hours ago
Filling with gravel is good work?

[–] MikeConleyMVP [score hidden] 1 hour ago
Where do you live where construction only shuts down lanes for 3 hours? In Ontario construction of anything takes years and
years.
[–] Ricky_RZ [score hidden] 1 hour ago

For potholes? In Ontario around 3 hours seem normal
[–] Mountain_Fever [score hidden] 5 hours ago
Just draw dicks around the holes. They'll fill them in real fast.
[–] ASmellyKneeGrow [score hidden] 4 hours ago
Too bad potholes have to be fixed a certain way or else water may leak underneath the fixed pothole and then lift and create
even worse potholes
[–] MovinSlowlyer [score hidden] 3 hours ago

Clean the area around the hole, tamper down all loose material, fill will cold patch, tamper/compact it more, likely more cold
patch and more tampering.
Good for this kid trying to help, but these holes will be showing again within weeks maybe sooner.

I’m unemployed so I’ll be there to fill them again
[–] MovinSlowlyer [score hidden] 2 hours ago
If you lived near me I'd buy you the proper tools. Good effort mate!
[–] Skellums [score hidden] 4 hours ago
Other than the potholes being filled, that intersection needs a redesign (roundabout?). On more than one occasion I've waited
upwards of 10 minutes to make a left turn (5PM rush). It's even worse now because everyone has to drive 10 km/h so they
don't damage their vehicles (it's that bad).
[–] 1stjambon [score hidden] 11 hours ago
Good for him taking action. Probably saved the government (taxpayers) like $1,500,000 for that. It's sickening how much
money is pissed away for this kind of stuff.
Team of 25 guys, 1 working and the rest standing around sipping coffee all making like $50/hour.
... actually on second thought this will probably end up costing more because they will now have to dig them all up because he
wasn't an "authorized" worker then fill them again - typical government money saving measures.
[–] onefoo nthepast [score hidden] 7 hours ago
Or, you know, one guy with some cold patch, a shovel, and a tamping rod, probably making $20-$30 per hour. Which is what it
would be if these potholes were in a parking lot.
The reason they'll have to be dug up is that they were filled with loose gravel. It's better than nothing, but also definitely not
going to last.
[–] Villain_of_Brandon [score hidden] 11 hours ago

Well it looks like a paved road so yeah, instead of filling it with cold patch and tamping it now they have to clean out the hole
then fill it.
[–] BuzzLightGear321 [score hidden] 9 hours ago
Imagine how much money they would save if they just fixed the potholes before someone became this fed up with them.
[–] RiseOfTheOgre [score hidden] 9 hours ago
The article states he just happened across them. The guy doesn’t drive, he just thought the potholes looked annoying.
Don’t get me wrong, I love a little tongue in cheek civil disobedience, but filling a pothole with loose gravel is only gonna make
the wait to get those potholes properly fixed longer, because the loose gravel will have to be cleared. Also, chucking gravel into
the street from the side of the road into moving traffic is kinda dangerous and an easy way to damage a vehicle-and I doubt he
has liability insurance to cover such damages like the city.
His heart is in the right place, but sometimes the road to hell is stuffed with the shoulder gravel of good intentions.
[–] imjesusbitch [score hidden] 3 hours ago
Imagine how much money they would save if they built the damn roads properly in the first place with good compaction, and
sealed cracks on the road surfaces as part of their yearly maintenance. Neither of those things happen in Nova Scotia.
[–] BuzzLightGear321 [score hidden] 1 hour ago
OMG hearing about preventive maintenance is my kink!!!

[–] bumble-beans [score hidden] 3 hours ago
The idea is that they probably weren't going to do that anyway, and this is much better than nothing
[–] FakeFile [score hidden] 1 hour ago
By the time they get to fixing it there will be a new pot whole.
[–] koreanwizard [score hidden] 8 hours ago
That's an 8 month project, only to be done during peak use hours.

[–] ironman3112 [score hidden] 3 hours ago

Good for him taking action. Probably saved the government (taxpayers) like $1,500,000 for that. It's sickening how much
money is pissed away for this kind of stuff.
Reminds me of this story out of Toronto about a set of stairs.
[–] Vandergrif [score hidden] 21 minutes ago
It's sickening how much money is pissed away for this kind of stuff.
Not to mention the fact that they typically do such a cheap and shoddy job of fixing the roads that they're torn up and cracked
the next year. Maybe if they bothered to put down more than a quarter inch of asphalt it might actually last a while.
[–] 921tony [score hidden] 4 hours ago
Not all heroes wear capes

[–] inverted180 [score hidden] 3 hours ago*
This guy filled it with gravel. If the city did this there would be a negative article about it.
But dont pay your taxes. Pay him.
[–] blueman81 [score hidden] 2 hours ago
Gravel is better than nothing
So you want the man to somehow apply fresh concrete? How ungrateful
[–] inverted180 [score hidden] 1 hour ago
Not what I said at all, but thanks anyway.

It's spring. The city crews are busy, trust me... will you be grateful when they come and fix it?
[–] JameTrain [score hidden] 11 hours ago
Ah, now that’s a good fellow there. Anyone who makes bureaucrats look foolish is alright.
[–] oneoldfella [score hidden] 4 hours ago
We could use a hundred or more of him in the City Of Kawartha Lakes.

[–] eIImcxc [score hidden] 3 hours ago
Please OP come to Montreal

[–] Conversa onEnder [score hidden] 1 hour ago
*despite
[–] BuzzLightGear321 [score hidden] 9 hours ago
If you can't maintain a road, just keep it gravel.

[–] SpikedLemon [score hidden] 8 hours ago
Gravel? Needing constant backfill and grading? No thanks, not on any road with any appreciable traffic.
[–] Entropy_Gate [score hidden] 4 hours ago
Nova Scotia Man is a national treasure.

I'm so happy that we can turn around "Nova Scotia Man" from being the new "Florida Man"
[–] Akesgeroth [score hidden] 9 hours ago
To the state: Fuck off. Do your job or get out of the way.
[–] No_Maines_Land [score hidden] 5 hours ago
UPAC would like a word with you...

[–] DebateKing2005 [score hidden] 7 hours ago
I give CPR to dying people. Pay me instead of your taxes.

[–] AlexanderRadulov [score hidden] 13 minutes ago

Isn't he liable if a car drives over one of his filled potholes and it damages the car?
[–] NobodyNo ceMe [score hidden] 9 minutes ago
Not the hero we want. But the hero we need.

[–] uber_neutrino [score hidden] 7 minutes ago
What is happening that they can't maintain the roads? This is the kind of thing I saw in Africa where the locals would repair the
roads.
[–] ytew6 [score hidden] just now

Our roads have, and always will be shit.
[–] Jesustheteenyears [score hidden] 8 hours ago
Anarchism at work. Beautiful

[–] Cinderheart [score hidden] 4 hours ago
When can you come to Montreal?

[–] The-rambling-man [score hidden] 4 hours ago
Real heros dont wear capes


But they do, sometimes, wear safety vests.
[–] ymlccc [score hidden] 4 hours ago
I will tip this gent

[–] MatRanc [score hidden] 3 hours ago
Don’t show this to r/ottawa

[–] CanadianRegi [score hidden] 2 hours ago
Just had a visit there. I couldn't believe how terrible the roads are; potholes everywhere, snow still covering half the roads, and
lane paint was completely missing
[–] Dblrumncoke [score hidden] 3 hours ago
This man is a legend.

[–] Rec7ify [score hidden] 2 hours ago
I live near this area. Obviously what OP is doing is a very temporary solution but he's also drawing a lot of attention to how
abysmal that section of road is, and I think that's a major victory for locals. Those potholes are brutal, that area is extremely
busy (relatively speaking, of course) and traffic creeping through there at 15 km/h is backing things up a lot. Thanks OP!
[–] MyMorningBender [score hidden] 7 hours ago
Reminds me of the lyrics from a Wingnut Dishwasher Union song:

And the anarchists have started Filling potholes, collecting garbage To prove we don't need governments to do these things
Great. Get some anarchists out here in BC to start regulating the casinos and managing the housing crisis, then.
[–] Cita onDependent [score hidden] 3 hours ago
Scottish guy went to India and saw they were fixing the potholes by melting plastic into them.
He owns a paving company and played with some plastics to replace bitumen. He claims the formula he developed is 10x
longer lasting than traditional bitumen asphalt.
Get rid of waste plastic and make the roads better...but our PM wants higher fuel prices, so...
They still use bitumen in plastic road construction. The plastic components are the aggregate, the bitumen in the mix is what
holds it all together.
You get rid of the asphalt though, which may or may not be better. If I remember right (from reading an article on this a while
back) the plastics can still pose health risks as they eventually still break down to microplastics which can affect nearby
vegetation and animal life negatively.
Overall, I would say it would be a positive so long as the health risks are less than ashphalt as it would be a great way to reuse
excess recyclables.
[–] Cita onDependent [score hidden] 1 hour ago
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-47454719
Conventional roads use crude oil to make bitumen which binds the rocks, limestone and sand. This new process replaces
some of that oil with plastic. And there's apparently a "secret ingredient" in there too.
I don't even know where to start with your comment. You obviously have no idea what you are talking about, but decided to
talk about it.
You didn't even try to discuss the point of the roads lasting 10x longer. Instead you suggest the oil to make bitumen is
somehow more dangerous than the same oil used to make plastics and reduce waste going into the dump.
If the plastic does still break down, though taking 10x longer, wouldn't that plastic break down in the dump? This is providing a
further use to that plastic, which is already produced.
I don't know what to say to you.
[–] SquishedPeter [score hidden] 1 hour ago
"These materials are first sorted from plastic waste. After sorting, the material is cleaned, dried, and shredded. The shredded
plastic is mixed and melted at around 170°C.[7] Hot bitumen is then added and mixed with the melted plastic. After mixing the
mixture is laid as one would with regular asphalt concrete." Source
Oils have an extremely wide range of health hazards, based on how they are refined, used, and deteriorate. The refined oil in
your car has vastly different hazards than refined oil in plastic, or refined oil in roads. My question was how hazardous would
the components be once they breakdown, as roads do.
[–] Cita onDependent [score hidden] 1 hour ago
The plastic replaces about 10% of the bitumen. Both are petrochemicals.
Aggregates are stone. The bitumen binds the aggregate, just as the plastic does.
You don't even understand the basic vocabulary let alone the process.
As an example, there is a new waste plant in Chester that is using plastic to make diesel.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/sustane-technologies-plastic-fuel-diesel-environment-1.4735539
The kind of plastic that can be converted to diesel is different than that which can be used in the roads.
But again, you haven't addressed the fact that it removes a product from a waste stream, reduces raw input of fossil fuels,
and lasts 10x longer...
Must work for a construction company or the government.
[–] 1Transient [score hidden] 1 hour ago
But then the contractors want to get paid for that every spring.😡
[–] PrinceFeather [score hidden] 8 hours ago
Winnipeg would like to borrow you

[–] klparrot [score hidden] 7 hours ago
Definitely used to be terrible, thought I heard they had finally stepped up their game, though. No? Or have they just dropped
the ball again?
[–] buyxrp [score hidden] 4 hours ago
leave the guy alone at least he is being pro active. Big deal
[–] kenmacd [score hidden] 2 hours ago
said Cpl. Ron Bryce with the Pictou RCMP in an interview.

They don't care. You have the news come to you though and you can't really say "yeah, he's doing a good job, wish more
people did it". I read this as a polite "please don't get in anyone's way because we don't want to have to write up the
complaint".
[–] Boobiebears2 [score hidden] 4 hours ago
Off - ramp potholes are the worst. Nobody wants to fix them.
[–] crappypaddy [score hidden] 3 hours ago
Been a while since I've been there, but I think he should work on Maclellans Brook Rd next. That place is a minefield
[–] McKimS [score hidden] 3 hours ago
/r/madlads
[–] theloewentheory [score hidden] 2 hours ago
If NS doesn't want his help come on down to MB.

[–] midnightrambler108 [score hidden] 2 hours ago
And you guys don’t think the private sector is more efficient?

No. What a foolish thing to say.
[–] colesnap [score hidden] 2 hours ago
Thank you dude, our roads are trash. You’re a good bean.
[–] Nsktea [score hidden] 1 hour ago
DO NOT COME TO NOVA SCOTIA! Any tourists who drive here will have large mechanic bills. The roads are the worst I’ve ever
seen! Every year they get worse and worse.
great dude
[–] crazylighter [score hidden] 1 hour ago
Reminds me of one winter in nova scotia where there was a giant pothole ahead of a car repair place. People would drive into
the pothole, mess up their car then need to stop at the repair shop to fix the damage. Great for business, terrible for all drivers
that had to go through the area
[–] CmdrIsaacVoidbearer [score hidden] 41 minutes ago
“I told them that I was making traffic faster,” said McCue. “I hope they don’t come and get me until I’m done with this.”
LMAO what a legend. Construction work is taxing, but not really any excuse for thousands of potholes across every city in the
country.
This guy just doing what needs to be done. Shouldn't be illegal to 'do it yourself'. Don't teach kids the saying 'if you want
something done right you should do it yourself' if you don't want eventually competent people to take the saying to heart
[–] MiniHos [score hidden] 32 minutes ago

How do you screw up the first word in the headline for an article about yourself?
[–] CoconutWally [score hidden] 24 minutes ago
My dude, you’re doing the province a favour! Keep it up!!

[–] whooope [score hidden] 23 minutes ago
Dude, you're the hero we need but not the hero we deserve. Thanks for your work...
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[–] sideways_blow_bang [score hidden] 11 hours ago

"Pay me instead of your taxes" Saved everyone else a click.

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[–] Mithan1 [score hidden] 3 hours ago

Can confirm. Source: just wrote a paper on frost effects on

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I almost thought I was in r/Libertarian.

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[–] the_cheeky_monkey [score hidden] 11 hours ago

Great 'civil disobedience' Reminds me of drawing penises around potholes

[–] lordhugh [score hidden] 2 hours ago

Did that force them to fix it?

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[–] RonnieFuckster [score hidden] 7 hours ago

Dude I've seen you around hula hooping. Cheers man

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[–] SquishedPeter [score hidden] 2 hours ago

LOL, you are obviously not Nova Scotian.

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[–] SniperXPX [score hidden] 2 hours ago

Come to Newfoundland and fill in our potholes!

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As someone in pictou county YOU GO DUDE.

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