What is with Jax Manhole Covers? Signal Poles?

[tufsu1]

I would assume their answer will be a lack of money.

[Johnny]

To be honest, I would like them to spend the money on something else. As I mentioned in another thread, if you tour some other cities, you'll notice our roads are extremely nice and we seem to always have road construction. I'm not really sure why. I guess we want to be known for the nicest streets that no one visits. Awesome!

[CS Foltz]

Signal poles have a paint issue.........basic pole is galvanized inside and out but if it is done to lowest bidder spec's ....no wonder the paint is flaking off!....possibly no primer or contaminated,could be several issue including pole was wet upon painting! As to the Manhole covers...........that looks like lowest bidder work or else someone does this all the time for the City and they don't know what they are doing!

[mtraininjax]

Where Belfort RD and Salisbury come together, there used to be a fence that PROTECTED people who did not see the T-intersection in time, before they launched themselves through the brush and into Northbound I-95. That fence has been down since September, the City fixed it once, now the lack of City Council leadership and General City disregard for safety is asking for a tragedy, before they do anything to fix the current openness. The vast openness of Belfort RD/Salisbury and the deer/wildlife could next appear on your windshield, if you are not careful, there is nothing to keep them from I-95.

[Charles Hunter]

Help! I'm confused.  Taking a look at Google Maps - the Bowden/Salisbury intersection is no where near I-95.  Are you talking about the road that goes to Sleiman's building?  Is it in the area where JTA is adding a new lane to I-95?  Their contractor may have taken the fence down so their trucks could get to the construction site?

[mtraininjax]

Sorry, I meant Belfort Road and Salisbury, since corrected. Thank you for the insight! 

[Overstreet]

Signal poles have a paint issue.........basic pole is galvanized inside and out but if it is done to lowest bidder spec's ....no wonder the paint is flaking off!....possibly no primer or contaminated,could be several issue including pole was wet upon painting! As to the Manhole covers...........that looks like lowest bidder work or else someone does this all the time for the City and they don't know what they are doing!

The ones that came for the San Jose project several years ago came out without the factory paint. They were painted in the field after erection. Probably not pretreated properly for the coating on the pole.

[CS Foltz]

Overstreet .....I agree! Something had to NOT been done for paint to be stripping, flaking and just plain coming the hell off! No primer or what ever..........you just can not put paint on a galvanized surface and expect it to stay!