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Savannah State Pothole Project

Task Force

MARIO

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Causes of Potholes by Mario Williams

Savannah State University gets many visitors per day and the count just keeps on

increasing. The only obstruction that’s keeping visitors from seeing the true beauty behind

Savannah State University is having a gruesome encounter with tire-busting pop-holes. Pot holes

create an unsafe environment for visitors, for the professors, and for the students daily. Nobody

wants to drive on a road where hazardous pots holes are present. It really makes you wonder has

the school ever put any real-serious efforts toward the maintenance of its roads. Year after year,

potholes always seem to find their way on our streets. The formation of these holes starts from

underneath the surface.

To give more clarity, “rainwater sinks through cracks in old or weakened asphalt. The

water is soaked up by the mixture of rock, gravel, and sand that supports the road. Vehicles

passing over the road force water through the soggy roadbed, eventually eroding parts of it.

Asphalt sinks into the eroded portions of the roadbed and eventually cracks under the continued

impact of vehicle tires. Chunks become loose, and potholes are formed (How Do Potholes

form).”

The fear of having a tire burst or worse hitting someone in efforts to avoid pot holes is

the most frequent talk-about topic discuss on school grounds. But sadly, school officials don’t

believe it’s serious enough. Nonetheless, officials have made some efforts to manage the spread

of pot holes but by the looks of the road, there really has not been any significant improvement.

From a student’s point of view, how hard is it to simply maintain the roadway of one’s

establishment?

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Jamilla

Fixing pothole

Fixing pothole properly is the most important thing especially on a college campus. The main

reason why these potholes keep re-appearing because of the way the hole is being constructed

along with the cement type. To make this potholes last a long time you have to make sure the

shape of the hole is correct. That shape must resemble or be similar to an ice cream cone shape;

wider at the top than it is at the bottom. The difficulty level of fixing these on-going potholes is

not hard, so I do not know why they keep continue to be a problem after these years pasting. If

you want to repair a pothole, the best time to do it will be when the temperature is in the 50-65F

degree range. The proper cement/concrete type to use to fix pothole would be to mix cement and

aggregate mix together. This mixture is not only cost friendly, but it also get the job done. Once,

you have the dry cement aggregate mixed together make sure that you add water to the dry mix

because you must have the right consistency. The mix should not have too much water nor not

enough. Secondly, you have to clean the pothole that you are going to fix. Make sure that hole is

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probably clean with no dirt or debris in the way before you begin to fill it up. You can use a

tamper or any other tool to clean the bottom of the hole. After you have gotten the hole clean,

sprinkle water on the surface. Third, you will pour the mixture into the pothole, bit do not fill it

up to the top. Only fill it up until it is an approximately two inches. Fourth, after you have

applied the two inches of cement mix into the hole, reapply the cement in two inch increments

until the pothole has been filled. Fifth and lastly, once the pothole has been filled up and

compacted apply a small crown over the repair area. Also, make sure protect the newly filled

holes it by using bricks painted white and place them around the pothole. The cement mix in the

hole as to be untouched for at least five to six hours and it takes twenty-four hours for the fill

material to harden. With these proper pothole repairing methods, these patches would last longer

and our campus roads will look more beautiful. It is a must that out campus have the proper road

ways for drivers to drive their cars on and it is very important that the student, facility, and

visitors of the campus have a nice and proper road to drive, if they do not that can cause plenty

of safety hazards.

Jamar

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Almost all of us at Savannah State have grumbled

Almost all of us at Savannah State have grumbled about our University’s seemingly endless slate of beautification projects and “campus improvements.” Many of us, myself included, have sometimes wondered: What is the logic behind maintaining a beautiful campus? Can we justify spending $78 million on repaving the roads at a time when the financial burden of college has become prohibitive for many? Expenditures like these can be quite difficult to reconcile with our sense of practicality.

The quality of the roads here at Savannah State University is a pressing issue. Complaints have been filled and voices have been raised, but yet there hasn’t been any improvements. Our school’s physical beauty is one of its most defining characteristics, and questions about this beauty are thus questions about SSU itself. Whether one agrees or not, the way our campus looks has a deep symbolic meaning.

Roads, and means of transport, make a crucial contribution to economic development and growth and bring important social benefits. Poorly maintained roads constrain mobility, significantly raise vehicle operating costs, increase accident rates and their associated human and property costs. Without regular maintenance, roads can rapidly fall into disrepair, preventing realization of the longer term impacts of road improvements on development, such as increased growth in school enrollment.

Postponing road maintenance results in high direct and indirect costs. If road defects are repaired promptly, the cost is usually modest. If defects are neglected, an entire road section may fail completely, requiring full reconstruction at three times or more the cost, on average, of maintenance costs.

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BRIAN

Portholes within college roads

When the condition of campus or college roads and pathways are smooth and intact, transport and movement within the institution is very smooth and easy. On the other hand when potholes develop, this becomes a nightmare to all the college fraternity and even visitors. Portholes develop when water gets into cracks in roads and pavements and freezes, something which leads to break up after the process of expansion. When this water finally melts, continuous pressure from people and vehicles leads to formation of portholes. This condition, if not rectified makes life in campus very hard. When the portholes get repaired, a lot of people benefit in the process.

When dirty water collects in the portholes, people using the lanes or foot paths within college find it hard to move. They will always try to dodge them. This gets worse if the roads are being used by faculty vehicles or those of visitors. Those walking risk being splashed with dirty water by the vehicles. in the process of avoiding this they end up creating other walkways all over the compound interfering with the nice appearance and beauty it has to the school. If repaired this challenge of taking a longer route to avoid the portholes will not be there and people walking will avoid the waste of time. Again, people crowd in the only save routes and because the footpaths are narrow, the condition leads to overcrowding and movement gets curtailed. This is however avoided when the roads are safe.

The people using cars and any other vehicles by the faculty or visitors of the college also enjoy free and smooth ride. A road with portholes leads to time wastage when vehicles try to avoid the damaged areas. They have to wait for one another as they cannot swerve around the other vehicles. This causes jam mostly when the number is very big. In the process drivers will avoid unnecessary on-campus collisions if the roads are clear. Portholes are known to damage the wheels of vehicles which make repairs costly. Smooth roads in campus will not cause any of these challenges. When the road conditions are poor, the school buses that transport students and faculty within and outside campus are not left out by the menace of portholes. The passengers get tossed around. To those few who happen to be standing find the condition very much annoying. The rides are however full of fun on smooth roads.

Institutions are places where environmental beauty is a priority. This is because nice scenery attracts people. People want to learn in serene atmospheres that are learning friendly. a compound with smooth roads is very nice looking to the people within. Places like the flower beds remain intact as nobody will have to step on them. Again places with green grass will also be saved. All these increase the aesthetic value in the campus. Portholes cause an ugly scenario of a place. They make the place less attractive and everybody wishes to avoid such a place. They lead to people creating paths on flowerbeds and other

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places left out for beauty. Repairing them when they get formed saves and maintains the aesthetic value of the campus. The beneficiaries of a smooth transport network within colleges and campuses are many. Students enjoy nice rides. Faculty drivers and visitors also enjoy smooth rides in their cars. Their time is saved as they don’t have to wait for each other to pave way for them. To the school fraternity, beautiful scenery is maintained. Visitors also enjoy a nice and friendly environment when they come visiting. All in all, portholes are supposed to get fixed in time before they become a nuisance and damage the nice picture of a campus.

RayDELL

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Work cited

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