Sometimes I think they would do better to tear up the blacktop and gravel it all. Then they could just run a grader down it every now and then!

Why not just remove the pavement down to the bricks. Are all the streets in Coshocton bricked?

they just need to do something about them. go back to brick would be different

Give us a break, we never had driven on brick roadways before. We were just wondering. But what will happen to our roads, once we have no money to fit them? And it won't be long before the town, the state, and the country has no money. How long before we will all be give IOU's. We might be trading chickens for doctor visits like the good old days if things keep up.

if this lil town that has now trouble with the roads cant fix a few potholes or buy salt or keep repairs up how far away from the way calafornia are we? i mean the dmv in cali is now shut down and there broke how long till the state of ohio also goes broke and has to lay off the dmv or better yet the law enforcement or the city officals its a sad site this day and age where people we vote in to run this place we live cant budget money but yet u dont see them waintin for anything but those of us that have to work to put food in our bellys or gas in our cars have to drive more then an hour most times to just make it to the next payday what chance do the kids in this town have for a future in this town i see in the next ten years this being a ghost town a city of the past !and not only will roscoe village be a tourist attration but the whole town will be its a shame we now have to drive to new philly or zanesville or columbus to do anything no wonder we have a high rate of kids dropin out and ruining away i dont blame them at all what future do they have but to collect welfare or get on disabilaty to make it in this town! i mean comeon if this ruffles ur feathers then this may pertain to u! as a young person in this messed up town it relly saddens me that i as a future adult in this town am now ashamed of where im from and where i was raised get off ur asses and fix the true problmes ur fat ass pockets and take a pay cut bring jobs to this comunity make it a better place for me to say im proud to be from coshocton make me proud to have a job in my comunity insted of trying to figuer out where my next meal will be on my plate or on the street

The city and the state are both failing fast here. They have wasted money for so long that they are addicted to it. California's current economic status is where the states are all headed. When Ronald Reagan was the gov they had a surplus of money and he asked the people to vote whether or not they wanted a refund and the people said no. Now they might as well file for bankruptcy.

One thing about government - they are not your friend. Do not rely on them to be there with food or water in an emergency. Or blankets in the cold. Network with friends and take care of each other and yourself. Don't get in debt. Stock some food for hard times and learn a skill that will always be needed. Advice from a ... middleaged ...yeah I like that .... middleaged person!

Could not have said it better Cat! Funny thing I heard on Cnn a pond shop owner talling people to pile rice and canned good. We both are ahead of the game!

Cities and states running out of highway funds for salt and pothole repair is nothing new. Again, most highway(street) departments budget for average winters and usually get thrown for a loop when we get a severe winter or two, such as we have had the past couple years. The same thing happened in 1977 and 1978, and the winter of 93-94. The other interesting factor in those periods and the current one is which party controlled the Ohio legislature. I know th answer but I'll let you look it up. The same party also had control of the Congress during those same periods.I might also add that Federal highway funding to the states had also been cut during each of those times and now.
This isn't just a local problem.
Brick streets seem to hold up beter than asphalt streets do under most conditions. The problem is, when they tear up portions of those streets to work on utilities, they don't put them back they way they found them. The streets become bumpy and hard to drive on to the point where the cities just blacktop them. Mount Vernon has a ordinance that requires the streets to be put back in original condition after utility work, so their brick streets are still in good shape. Coshocton's ordinance came after a lot of the damage was done, so most of the streets now have asphalt on them.

BOTH parties are a joke, they are run by the same banking system that just robbed the people of there retirement funds, just to give their big ceo's cash awards. They talk about the new bill to help with housing, hell I thought that was done with the first one? All this new bill is to keep people dependent on the government.

It will not award the hard working people, who are living within their means. But people who bought high priced homes that they couldn't afford. Award bad behavior and let the hard working people pay more taxes. Not sure why the people are not out in the streets protesting, oh right we have been house trained by the government!