Why Are Our Streets Being Torn Up — and Why Isn’t the City Holding Utility Companies Accountable?

If you’ve driven a good many of the streets in Daytona Beach, as example Clyde Morris Blvd., You already know the feeling: the constant vibration, the rattling steering wheel, the sense that you’re driving over a gravel pit instead of a paved road. It’s not just annoying — it’s a sign of a bigger problem that our government ignores.

Utility companies dig up our streets to install or repair their lines, but the pavement they put back never matches the original road surface. The result is a patchwork of uneven asphalt, dips, ridges, and seams that turn a public roadway into a permanent construction zone.

And here’s the part that really stings: We pay taxes for those roads. We fund the paving. We fund the maintenance. But when a utility company cuts into the street, the city often fails to enforce any standard that requires them to restore the pavement to its original condition. 

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