Sidewalk Repairs

Last year in my neighborhood the city started putting green x's on cracked parts of sidewalks. For some reason none of ours had them. That meant they had to get fixed and/or replaced. It is up to the homeowners to spend hundreds sometimes thousands of dollars to fix them. This year a good part of sidewalk has the green x's.

My question is if they are public sidewalks why are we responsible for fixing them and why are we the ones who have to pay for them. It is not like we can charge people to walk on them to help pay for it.

Oh, and yes this is the same sidewalk by the pictures of the road construction. With all the vibrations the cracks have even gotten bigger. Wait though the construction has just begun!!!
They have not even started to actually fix the road. So who knows what the trucks and vibrations will do the sidewalks, our house, our yard, et cetera.

The decision making politicians are a joke. A few years ago our telephone company dug up part of our sidewalk to put new lines in the ground, added a manhole cover, shook our tree and house like you could not even believe and made the couple of small hairline cracks that we did have even bigger.

Did I mention that they denied doing that. You would think that in this day of lawsuits companies would think to photograph the sidewalks and area they are immediately working in to prove whether or not they did or did not cause damage. Of course if we had thought about it would have photographed the sidewalk too.

Live and learn. Live and learn.

Remember if anyone is doing any kind of work near your home take pictures before they start so if something goes wrong you have some kind of proof that there was either no damage or if there already is some damage how bad it is.

I ran into one of my neighbors that did have sidewalk repairs done and he only had about I say 3 feet to 5 feet to do and it cost him almost $600.00. One of my other neighbors had to pay almost $1,600.00. Where does the city think people are going to get the money to pay this?