Citizen complaint of the day: If you're missing your exhaust system, it's on Ada Street in Roslindale

Those are resonators, not cats. No sign of O2 sensors, too big, and too far back to get sufficiently hot.

Additionally, it looks quite old and worn out. There are spots where it looks like it was already rusted through. Whoever lost it probably decided it wasn't worth the effort to retrieve.

The street workers are the morons? They'll tell you they're just doing what the engineers tell them via drawings and specs.

But the reality for placing the manhole covers - the access panel, as it were - in the middle of the street or to one side, under your delicate car's tire with associated shocks, is so that when workers have to access the utilities underground they only block one lane, allowing for the majority of traffic (I include 2 and 4 wheelers in traffic) to continue moving. But hey, your comfort with your car is more important.

It's not the location that the issue, it's the detail for the connection of the asphalt to the manhole cover structure. And the design to take into consideration the amount and weights of vehicles traveling over it. Further, the City and MassDOT have standard details that may need to be looked at as well as heightened oversight of the contractors performing the work.

But yeah, those street workers. They're complete morons. /s