You need to move to Dallas. On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 11:59 PM, clay <[email protected]> wrote:
> That would be a nice thought, but I am certain Seattle is collecting pot > holes instead of fixing them. The recent waste of tax payer funds (past > project were to make long steep hills into bike lanes and reduce car lanes) > in Roger and my neck of the woods has been to install traffic calming > devices on main roads that intersect a residential street that has become a > semi dedicated bike lane. Two lanes become one, transit blocks the road, > since it is but a block away from a main road running parallel to the bike > road and the buses are extra long and intrude into the intersection of the > bike route. Twenty blocks of stupidity at least. > > clay > > On May 15, 2013, at 5:21 AM, Dan Penoff wrote: > > > Roger, > > > > Sorry to hear about the delay. Hope things get cleared up for good and > quick. > > > > Just a thought - when I lived in the Great White North, we could file > damage claims against the city for damage due to a pothole. > > > > They were pretty prompt about settling as well, as long as you had all > your documentation in order. > > > > The wife's Mazda6 got a bent wheel courtesy of a pothole, and the city > settled the claim in about 5 weeks. Bought a new wheel and covered the > labor and incidentals to R&R the tire. > > > > Dan > > > > On May 14, 2013, at 11:33 PM, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > >>> ....Ditto. Best wishes and here's hoping you get to detailing the > >>> C-class > >>> sooner rather than later. What's the point of life, after all, if you > >>> can't mess around with old cars? > >>> > >>> Alex.. > >>> > >> Thanks. I can hardly bear to look at. My first car task will be the > >> replacement of the RF tire (Bridgestone DW, new last fall, now with a > blown out > >> sidewall) and repair of the gouged 18X8 AMG wheel which > >> occured when I hit a city owned snow chuckhole on 2/22. After dark, 37 > >> degrees and nobody around. I got the spare on with the usual difficulty > since > >> the jack had never been out of the spare tire well. I thought I was > faced with > >> a wheel replacement ($1250) but it looks like my dealer's "wheel guy" > can > >> fix it since it's so close to the edge. I've had one of my 17" winter > tires > >> (OE wheels) on the car so I could drive it. The 28 1/2 year old 944 > needs a > >> little dusting off too but it's been on a battery maintainer since last > >> September so it's mostly ready to fire up. > >> > >> You are right, spending time messing with the cars is is time well > spent. > >> > >> RLE > >>> > >>> > >> _______________________________________ > >> http://www.okiebenz.com > >> For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > >> > >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > > _______________________________________ > > http://www.okiebenz.com > > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
