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1 HN user recommended this in 2023, in one comment.
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1 HN user recommended this in 2023, in one comment.
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It looks like a 60 lb bag is only $26 [0] and really seems to not require mixing, just tamp down and roll over. At that price, I think I’ll be a pothole vigilante.
It’s also surprising to me as I assumed that it was expensive to repair potholes and require special equipment and machines. This makes me think that any unpatched potholes are just a logistic issue since the cost is all labor and coordination.
Maybe this is finally a good case for blockchain as citizens could donate to an address and once the amount got high enough, some company would fix, make a claim, get verified, and get paid without needing someone to handle money.
But this gets us closer to distributed dystopia where towns are no longer competent to do basic stuff like send out a 3 person union crew for $300 to fix a pothole ($75/hour x 3 people x 1 hour + $26 + vehicle amortization). This also assumes dispatching for a single pothole. It seems like it only takes a few minutes so for a typical town (mine is 30 square miles) a crew could fix 2-4 potholes an hour or 16-32/day.
So 3x8x75 + 26x32 = 2632 before vehicle costs. Add in $100 for work truck amortization and maintenance and for $3k all the potholes get fixed.
[0] https://www.amazon.com/SAKRETE-Patch-Permanent-Pothole-Repai...