By adamg on Mon., 10/2/2017 - 9:30 am 
David White provides the proof that the potholes/craters at the Dedham Corporate Center parking lot have gotten out of hand.
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I think he's kneeling
By DerekLessing
Mon, 10/02/2017 - 9:37am
...not standing in an admittedly still-bad pothole
Yes, he's kneeling
By adamg
Mon, 10/02/2017 - 9:42am
But still making the point.
My eyes can't tell if he's kneeling or not
By anon
Mon, 10/02/2017 - 10:15am
If he's kneeling, there is clear intent to decieve. He says he's a lawyer. He should know better.
No intent to deceive
By adamg
Mon, 10/02/2017 - 10:21am
It's more that, due to the limitations of the pages here, the photo isn't as large as he took it. Here's a closeup (if you look closely, you can even see his shoe at the rear end of the pothole):
What
By perruptor
Mon, 10/02/2017 - 2:16pm
Have you never seen a lawyer at work?
What point is he making, exactly?
By anon
Mon, 10/02/2017 - 10:17am
I mean, drive 5 mph in a parking lot, and these potholes don't matter to any auto. Use care when walking or biking, to be sure... but let's focus our money paying to help people move rather than to park.
C'mon
By anon
Mon, 10/02/2017 - 10:47am
Isn't this why suburbanites insist that they have to have SUVs?
One photo and the oikophobes
By Dave
Mon, 10/02/2017 - 2:17pm
One photo and the oikophobes show up.
Fear of yogurt?
By dmcboston
Mon, 10/02/2017 - 3:40pm
Fear of yogurt?
Conform or be cast out?
By SwirlyGrrl
Tue, 10/03/2017 - 2:49pm
Interesting that concept has been shifted a level out.
I guess these libertarians are also oikophobes using that screwed up definition of home = suburbia:
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYYdQB0mkEU[/youtube]
p.s to dmcboston: lmao! Perfect!
Please
By Roslindaler
Mon, 10/02/2017 - 10:58am
I have an idea! Lets spend our money to help people to move AND to help people park! The notion that it is an either/or is absurd. Only in Mass. do we believe that we should live like skin flints in a public works shambles.
Well sure
By anon
Mon, 10/02/2017 - 11:44am
But let's do it in that order. Let's focus on helping people move first and foremost.
Fair enough
By anon
Mon, 10/02/2017 - 12:13pm
Pay for it.
We already do.
By roadman
Mon, 10/02/2017 - 6:20pm
They're called parking fees. Which the MBTA collects from commuters and which are supposed to pay for maintenance and repair of these lots.
But of course, T management just considers those fees another source of "non fare" revenue that they decide to us on whatever they feel like.
Big dig debt
By SwirlyGrrl
Mon, 10/02/2017 - 6:33pm
In other words, you are paying $4 for big dig debt.
Not me
By roadman
Mon, 10/02/2017 - 8:06pm
On those days when I decide to drive to commuter rail (as opposed to walking from my house), I park at one of the three stations in Melrose where the City owns and maintains the lots.
This is a deep pothole..
By whyaduck
Mon, 10/02/2017 - 2:26pm
I do not want to drive into it going 50 or 5 miles per hour.
No, this pothole is big
By anon
Mon, 10/02/2017 - 3:14pm
No, this pothole is big enough to be a problem. And if it doesn't get fixed, it will get worse. Fixing potholes is cheap. Not fixing them is not the way to find money to move people (whatever that means).
Potholes!
By anon
Mon, 10/02/2017 - 10:08am
You want potholes you want craters check out Braintree, Quincy Adams, and don't get me started on Quincy Center which is an open toilet whenever it rains with filth and water pouring down on passengers as they enter and exit the gates.
That parking lot
By BostonDog
Mon, 10/02/2017 - 10:46am
Looks like most roads in Massachusetts....
Ten years ago, perhaps
By SwirlyGrrl
Mon, 10/02/2017 - 3:51pm
As a road cyclist who wanders widely throughout the area, I have found that most communities have started repaving and maintaining their streets and roads on a regular basis, and many formerly rough ones have improved a great deal.
Southeastern MA still lags behind in general, and there are issues in some communities that have heavy truck traffic damage and don't build and maintain their roads accordingly.
Oh, sure
By perruptor
Tue, 10/03/2017 - 6:43am
They repave the worst streets. Somehow, they always seem to schedule those projects the year before a major sewer- or water-pipe replacement project that tears the street up again and leaves it lumpily-patched and prone to ice damage.
Perhaps
By SwirlyGrrl
Tue, 10/03/2017 - 2:53pm
But bikey people tend to notice these things, and I haven't noticed a lot of post-pavement nonsense lately. I have noticed that when a road is "down" for construction, it usually includes all the big projects before the paving gets done. That may be why, as a whole, roads seem to be improving.
My dad used to pay me to cycle through specific areas and make notes about the pavement when he was in charge of riding herd on utilities and the repairs they were supposed to be making.
Wow, I'm flabbergasted by all
By tofu
Mon, 10/02/2017 - 10:57am
Wow, I'm flabbergasted by all the comments stating basically "yeah, this is fine, this is what our roads should look like". When did we stop expecting better from our community/government?
Roads?
By anon
Mon, 10/02/2017 - 12:13pm
This is a privately owned parking lot.
Managed by a private company
By Dave
Mon, 10/02/2017 - 2:22pm
Managed by a private company under contract with the MBTA.
Those Pesky Potholes
By Another David
Mon, 10/02/2017 - 3:10pm
According to the MBTA, the lot is managed by Republic Parking Systems of Chattanooga, TN. However, according to the MBTA, the MBTA owns the lot and is responsible for the maintenance of the parking surface. The MBTA is always happy to hear from you. (617) 222-3200
Those Pesky Potholes
By Another David
Mon, 10/02/2017 - 3:11pm
According to the MBTA, the lot is managed by Republic Parking Systems of Chattanooga, TN. However, according to the MBTA, the MBTA owns the lot and is responsible for the maintenance of the parking surface. The MBTA is always happy to hear from you. (617) 222-3200
So who pays...
By dmcboston
Mon, 10/02/2017 - 3:42pm
...for the long term capital improvements?
Apparently nobody.
By baepp
Mon, 10/02/2017 - 4:32pm
Apparently nobody.
When we were in 8th grade and
By anon
Mon, 10/02/2017 - 11:28am
When we were in 8th grade and too old to go trick-or-treating, my best friend and I dressed up in costumes, tied sneakers to our knees, rang all the neighborhood doorbells, then quickly knelt down on the neighbors' front door steps. It was fun. People gave us candy anyway. Maybe this guy should have put on a clown suit.
Been done...
By dmcboston
Mon, 10/02/2017 - 3:42pm
" Maybe this guy should have put on a clown suit."
Been done, getting old...
Really Bad
By SouthSt
Mon, 10/02/2017 - 11:35am
These pot holes really are terrible. I'm always afraid my little Scion is going to be swallowed whole. We should expect better. Who is in charge of paving these lots? MBTA? State? City of Dedham?
How much does it cost to park
By cinnamngrl
Mon, 10/02/2017 - 12:53pm
How much does it cost to park there? who owns and/or runs the lot?
Where does the money go?
By SouthSt
Mon, 10/02/2017 - 2:41pm
It costs $4.00 to park there!
Not a pothole, he's just
By anon
Mon, 10/02/2017 - 12:54pm
Not a pothole, he's just coming up the escalator of an inter-dimensional gate now replacing older linear rail systems...
Before we worry about parking lots where you drive 3 mph
By Ron Newman
Mon, 10/02/2017 - 5:15pm
could we please do something about Beacham Street in Everett? Not good for cars *or* bikes. Not really good for pedestrians either.
Don't all those oil tank
By anon
Tue, 10/03/2017 - 12:38am
Don't all those oil tank farms and produce warehouses pay property tax? There's no reason why such an important road should be so badly maintained.
Everett
By SwirlyGrrl
Tue, 10/03/2017 - 2:54pm
All you need to know.
Want Everett to do something? Ask Wynn.
I'm not kidding.
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