Re “San Diego road conditions facing ’significant declines’” (May 1): The city is wasting money patching smooth streets with superficial cracks. The pavement smoothness after the street sections are dug up and patched is much bumpier.
Pacific Beach street patching has been going on for a few weeks in my neighborhood. I asked a worker why the street is being patched and he pointed to smooth superficial asphalt cracks with a city work order.
There are thousands of streets in our city that are in unbelievably poor “Third World” condition. It’s so infuriating to see our financially bankrupt city wasting city resources with so many substandard streets in crumbling dangerous conditions seriously impacting the safety of bicyclists, pedestrians and drivers.
— Phillip Young, Pacific Beach
