The Puerto Rican Government either has no idea on how to fix the roads, don’t care, or they don’t have the money. It can’t be the latter because they are definitely taxing the hell out of me but this is to be discussed in anther article :-).

As you read in my previous article the potholes are horrendous. One of the main issues is they don’t know how to fix them. To be honest, I don’t know how to either, but I do know there has to be more than just throwing some asphalt in the hole. I mean there has to be! Because when they finally get around to filling up a hole, a few months later it is back and worse than it was to begin with.

Like I just said, “when they finally get around to filling up a hole”. The time it takes them to “fix” things can literally take months. The catch 22 is if they were to fix holes before they got to be a problem, there would never be problem. So there is a vicious circle of playing catch up.

I am sure you have seen the thick metal plates being used to temporarily cover up big holes on the streets in the States. I know Texas would use these plates so rush hour traffic wouldn’t come to a stand still. They would then remove the plate to work on the road at night. Puerto Rico likes to use the metal plates here as a permanent fix. I know of a major highway here that ever since I have lived has had a metal plate on it covering potholes.