# Letter from Amherst highway department **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [July 6, 2009, 8:50am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/letter-from-amherst-highway-department/70122 "2009-07-06T08:50:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![JayS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jays/32/15375_2.png) [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2009, 8:50am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/letter-from-amherst-highway-department/70122/1 "2009-07-06T08:50:26Z")
I got this last week and found this one sentence a little odd… _“This is to inform you that we will be rehabilitating your road this season.”_ Rehabilitating? Does my road have a heroin problem? A broken wing that needs to be mended so it can be released to the wild? Anyway… This morning I ended up driving down the sidewalk and using my neighbor’s driveway to get to the street since step one of road rehab is rip the fuck out of it with the giant cheese grater from hell, leaving a pile of crushed road about 6" higher than a GTO’s ground clearance in front of my driveway. ---
**Author:** ![Hass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/51bf81/32.png) [@Hass](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Hass)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2009, 8:53am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/letter-from-amherst-highway-department/70122/2 "2009-07-06T08:53:48Z")
Owned. ---
**Author:** ![Motocrossx23](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/motocrossx23/32/5120_2.png) [@Motocrossx23](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Motocrossx23)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2009, 9:02am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/letter-from-amherst-highway-department/70122/3 "2009-07-06T09:02:21Z")
Aw it’s like a poor little abandoned kitten! ---
**Author:** ![justa4door](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/justa4door/32/7259_2.png) [@justa4door](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/justa4door)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2009, 9:06am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/letter-from-amherst-highway-department/70122/4 "2009-07-06T09:06:24Z")
you would think someone like you would have backed out and fucked you car and got new parts and such " I did not see that pile there" ---
**Author:** ![Joe](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/joe/32/7219_2.png) [@Joe](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Joe)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2009, 9:13am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/letter-from-amherst-highway-department/70122/5 "2009-07-06T09:13:20Z")
They tried to make your road go to rehab, and you said no, no, no ---
**Author:** ![boardjnky4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/96bed5/32.png) [@boardjnky4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boardjnky4)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2009, 9:14am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/letter-from-amherst-highway-department/70122/6 "2009-07-06T09:14:10Z")
Step 1 is understanding that you have a problem… ---
**Author:** ![Pauly](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/pauly/32/7493_2.png) [@Pauly](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Pauly)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2009, 9:14am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/letter-from-amherst-highway-department/70122/7 "2009-07-06T09:14:58Z")
I’d call satish he’ll fix it. The games being played between the highway dept. and satish are unreal. Perfect example of broken gov’t ---
**Author:** ![camarojoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c67d28/32.png) [@camarojoe](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/camarojoe)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2009, 9:20am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/letter-from-amherst-highway-department/70122/8 "2009-07-06T09:20:47Z")
> [@JayS"](#): > > Anyway… This morning I ended up driving down the sidewalk and using my neighbor’s driveway to get to the street since step one of road rehab is rip the fuck out of it with the giant cheese grater from hell, leaving a pile of crushed road about 6" higher than a GTO’s ground clearance in front of my driveway. Doesn’t everyone in Williamsville own an SUV? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![LAFENGAS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/lafengas/32/7573_2.png) [@LAFENGAS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LAFENGAS)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2009, 9:48am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/letter-from-amherst-highway-department/70122/9 "2009-07-06T09:48:28Z")
rehabilitation is OFTEN used in construction jargon. One of the prjoects i’m currently managing is titled “Debris Removal and Drain Rehabilitation” ---
**Author:** ![BadnewsMike](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/badnewsmike/32/7419_2.png) [@BadnewsMike](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BadnewsMike)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2009, 10:00am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/letter-from-amherst-highway-department/70122/10 "2009-07-06T10:00:38Z")
> [@Joe](#): > > They tried to make your road go to rehab, and you said no, no, no My wife walked past the screen as i was scrolling past your post now she wont stop singing that song ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Joe](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/joe/32/7219_2.png) [@Joe](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Joe)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2009, 10:02am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/letter-from-amherst-highway-department/70122/11 "2009-07-06T10:02:27Z")
i fucking hate that song and the bitch who sings it. I feel your pain. my apologies. ---
**Author:** ![boxxa](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/boxxa/32/5045_2.png) [@boxxa](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boxxa)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2009, 10:17am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/letter-from-amherst-highway-department/70122/12 "2009-07-06T10:17:20Z")
> [@badnewsmini](#): > > My wife walked past the screen as i was scrolling past your post now she wont stop singing that song ☹ Tell her to stop looking at your screen. It could have been porn. ---
**Author:** ![JayS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jays/32/15375_2.png) [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2009, 10:23am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/letter-from-amherst-highway-department/70122/13 "2009-07-06T10:23:28Z")
![http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd75/jsears77/photo-18.jpg](http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd75/jsears77/photo-18.jpg) ![http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd75/jsears77/photo-21.jpg](http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd75/jsears77/photo-21.jpg) Rehab step 2… my road is going through pavement withdrawal. ---
**Author:** ![Spam16v](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/spam16v/32/5287_2.png) [@Spam16v](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Spam16v)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2009, 10:26am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/letter-from-amherst-highway-department/70122/14 "2009-07-06T10:26:23Z")
they did mine last year… curbs, sidewalks, trees, water main, gas main, sewer and storm drains, complete dig down 4’ to base and replaced it all. SHIT MESS and they didn’t lay pavement until the last week of november. ---
**Author:** ![JayS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jays/32/15375_2.png) [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2009, 10:40am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/letter-from-amherst-highway-department/70122/15 "2009-07-06T10:40:12Z")
This should be just a simple scrape/repave. I’m guessing it will be done before the end of the week. And I’m determined to be the first asshole to lay a big smokey burnout patch on the new road. ---
**Author:** ![LZ1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2009, 10:43am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/letter-from-amherst-highway-department/70122/16 "2009-07-06T10:43:51Z")
> [@JayS](#): > > And I’m determined to be the first asshole to lay a big smokey burnout patch on the new road. Hmm I will have to beat you to this. ---
**Author:** ![camarojoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c67d28/32.png) [@camarojoe](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/camarojoe)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2009, 10:57am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/letter-from-amherst-highway-department/70122/17 "2009-07-06T10:57:30Z")
> [@JayS](#): > > This should be just a simple scrape/repave. I’m guessing it will be done before the end of the week. > > And I’m determined to be the first asshole to lay a big smokey burnout patch on the new road. Did that at Sheridan and Delaware 🙂 OK, not a long and smokey one, but its a major intersection. ---
**Author:** ![JayS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jays/32/15375_2.png) [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2009, 10:59am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/letter-from-amherst-highway-department/70122/18 "2009-07-06T10:59:29Z")
> [@LZ](#): > > Hmm I will have to beat you to this. I do have the disadvantage of not being able to do it in front of the road crew since they’ve seen where I live. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![dirtye30](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/dirtye30/32/7333_2.png) [@dirtye30](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/dirtye30)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2009, 11:43am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/letter-from-amherst-highway-department/70122/19 "2009-07-06T11:43:26Z")
> [@LZ](#): > > Hmm I will have to beat you to this. running in place with your nikes? ---
**Author:** ![MikeRi24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@MikeRi24](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/MikeRi24)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2009, 12:14pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/letter-from-amherst-highway-department/70122/20 "2009-07-06T12:14:58Z")
> [@JayS"](#): > > Anyway… This morning I ended up driving down the sidewalk and using my neighbor’s driveway to get to the street since step one of road rehab is rip the fuck out of it with the giant cheese grater from hell, leaving a pile of crushed road about 6" higher than a GTO’s ground clearance in front of my driveway. Step 1: Pick yourself up one of these for the summer Step 2: Enter and Exit your driveway with ease Step 3: prob get better gas mileage than the GTO Step 4: ??? Step 5: Profit ![http://www.carbuyersnotebook.com/archives/bigsmart2.jpg](http://www.carbuyersnotebook.com/archives/bigsmart2.jpg) [Next page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/letter-from-amherst-highway-department/70122.md?page=2)