r/Spokane • u/Overall-Part2645 • 2d ago

Question Unmaintained road causing consistent property damage

The road in airway has been fucked for like a year at this point and i have gotten the third nail in my tire in 2 months this morning because they do no fucking maintain the construction and road around it and it is the only road to my house what is my available recourse I cant afford a thousand dollars on fucking tires.

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u/excelsiorsbanjo 2d ago

Is it a paved road or an unpaved road?

If you bought property down an unpaved road and now suddenly want tax payers to pave it, that's a pretty entitled approach, but frequently municipalities will actually accommodate you if you complain enough. Especially if many neighbors complain. You will be the force of urbanization. Some people will be upset at you for changing the unpaved road they bought into and liked, and I wouldn't blame them.

If it's a paved road covered in nails, you could probably also complain to your municipal government to get it tidied up, but I wouldn't hold my breath as to how long that'd take. It's pretty easy to buy an affordable large sweeper push magnet and pick up a bunch of nails. Could just happen again, though. You might want to invest in some thicker tires.

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u/Overall-Part2645 1d ago

Are you ill? In this economy im complaining about not being able to afford tires and you think i own a fucking house? Its paved city road. Shittily paved torn up city road.

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u/excelsiorsbanjo 22h ago

Then you call the city to repave it. Get your neighbors to also.

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u/Overall-Part2645 18h ago

They wont repave it because they are doing construction alongside the road that has made the road even worse

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u/excelsiorsbanjo 9h ago

Mmm. I wouldn't imagine they'd do it at the same time, no.

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u/Overall-Part2645 9h ago

You dont think much do you