Does no one inspect finished roadwork?

Two weeks ago, Old Buffalo Grove Road was repaved between Hintz Road and Buffalo Grove Road. It’s a little stretch of road, probably no more than 1/3 of a mile, that was broken and potholed for years.

It took about a week to strip, regrade, repave and paint the traffic lines. The problem is that the finished job looks like the work of the Three Stooges. There are low spots that puddle with rain water, and bumps, dips and wavy surfaces along the whole stretch of road. All one has to do is just look at the double yellow lines down the road to see it.

I just had my 120-foot-long driveway repaved, and I wouldn’t have paid my contractor a nickel if that was the way my driveway turned out.

Who is looking out for how taxpayer money is spent? I believe this street is part of Wheeling, and I know that Wheeling has engineering and building inspectors. Don’t they inspect? Don’t they care? Shouldn’t they demand that the work be done properly?

Perhaps the Daily Herald can have a reporter look into this and find out why thousands of dollars were spent on a substandard job, and who is responsible for this waste of taxpayer money.

Ken Glassman

Arlington Heights