By Randall Denley, Ottawa Citizen, April 9, 2015
The bad news about the bad roads, though, is that this isn’t a seasonal problem.
It’s chronic and long-term and it’s not clear that the city can really afford to
maintain roads in what drivers and city staff would consider good condition.
Back in 2012, the city took its first ever comprehensive look at the state of
all of its assets, including roads. It wasn’t a pretty picture. The report
uncovered the fact that 27 per cent of the city’s roads were in poor or very
poor condition. Of the rest, 52 per cent were fair and only 21 per cent were
good or very good. via
Denley: Why Ottawa’s roads are in such bad shape | Ottawa Citizen.