i am sick of these pot holes! there so freakin big! there so bad they have messed the fuel injector in my boyfriends car! this is some bs! THEY NEED TO FIX THEM I DONT CARE THAT ITS COLD OUT BOO WOOO FREAKIN FIX THEM! its really screwing up our cars!

They don't have the salt for the ice on the roads, how are they going to fix the pot holes that are still left over from last winter?

Does anyone know just what the financial state is here is Coshocton? Are we really out of salt for the roads because we don't have money to buy it? Does anyone know the real truth? What about the funding for our schools. Is it really as bad as they say, or just wanting more tax money?

This is OHIO..We have winter here..You know,,rain,freezing rain,,sleet,,snow,ice..And salt has to be used to melt this shit...Potholes are a way of life in this part of the country...sheeesh

Welcome new poster! Seems like a ghost town around here.


Was hoping someone could give me a clue about the state of Coshocton. But after reading that they are going to close the garage, I guess that says alot! But yet I see they are able to give raises out!

well the c-towns roads are gettin worse! the struts in my boyfriends car are going bad now! them pot wholes are really screwin up the car! who do i talk to about this?

The city service director or the other dude that is in charge of the maintenance can not remember what the heck his official position in life is? Rob Duffy is his name

MY understanding is that they didn't buy enough salt to get through a winter like we have had. Highway departments usually buy based on an average winter, and then plan to purchase more if needed. The problem here(and it isn't just Coshocton) is that the price of salt shot up because of the demand,and they can't buy the amount they need for the money budgeted for it. Coshocton isn't alone in this- a lot of smaller communities in the snow belt are having the same problem.
Salt isn't the solution to potholes, though. Excessive salting can actually accelerate pothole formation, as can leaving the ice and snow on the streets until it thaws out. Both situations allow ice to melt and re-freeze daily. When the water gets under the pavement and re-freezes, you get potholes.
Until the asphalt plants start production, there isn't much they can do to patch the holes. About all they can do is pour gravel in the and wait for spring.

Here is the real reason why we have so many potholes in this stinking putrid filthy town and why you hardly ever see city workers out and about.

every day it seems like the roads are getting worse and worse. for real. the wholes look like there geting bigger to. why can they fix them?

they are broke.............no money, prolly the case.

Cold patch is expensive too and doesn't last very long, because they can't compress it enough to hold up from the pounding it gets from car and truck tires. Most road departments try to avoid it for that reason. They prefer to pour gravel in it because it is cheap, and wait until they can get hot patch to do a permanent fix. Businesses with asphalt parking lots often use cold patch, but they don't have the traffic that roads have.
Wasn't there a post in the old Tribune forum a couple years ago about somebody getting their whole car stuck in a pothole at the Plaza? I remember it because it was funny.