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Posted: Sep , 2010 9:35 PM
Updated: Sep 03, 2010 7:27 AM
By Alex Cameron, Oklahoma Impact Team
VIAN, Oklahoma -- For many Oklahomans, the economic downturn has been a figurative rough ride -- they've lost jobs, lost homes, or maybe both. Here in the small community in rural Sequoyah County, the 'ride' has now literally become rough, as local roads suffer the consequences of this economy's diminished revenues.
Oklahoma is certainly not known for having the smoothest roads -- harsh weather and heavy commercial truck traffic help see to that -- and now county commissioners who routinely struggle to find the dollars needed to keep pace with needed fixes, face an even greater challenge.
The result is, in increasing numbers, cash-strapped county governments are turning to gravel as a solution, if only a temporary one.
Residents of Sequoyah County accept gravel roads as a fact of life in rural eastern Oklahoma, but they're not as accepting when it's a road that, up until a few months ago, was paved.
"It's terrible, it really is, that you gotta drive over something like this, but if you don't have the money to fix it, well, you gotta go with what you can," said James Roberts, Sequoyah County resident... FULL ARTICLE
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Wed, September 22, 2010
by Crystal Drwenski