Thursday, August 21, 2008

Potholes as Traffic Calming Devices

In a stunning display of insight into the behavioral psychology of motorists, Middleburgh Town Highway Superintendent Dale Nunamann explained that “the smoother we make the roads, the faster they go”. This of course was in response to a series of complaints from residents of East Hill Road in the town of Middleburgh. It's true apparently, the smoother the town makes East Hill Road, the faster drivers want to go.

This is quite a dilemma. But I wonder if there is a solution that could not only spare the slow-moving pets of East Hill Road residents but also lower taxes and help the environment at the same time.

Let’s chew on Nunamann’s little nugget of wisdom for a moment. If people go faster when we make the roads smoother, let’s just not make the roads any smoother! Instead of constantly upgrading our county’s rural roads with pavement or blacktop, or some other petroleum-based product, let’s leave them as is: rough, gravelly, uneven and strewn with gaping potholes! Naturally, they should be minimally maintained so that they don’t cause damage to car tires (when driving at reasonable speeds of course). But it seems like it might be cheaper and safer all around to just have dirt roads remain dirt roads.

Think of the taxes rural towns could save on material and labor costs. Not to mention the environmental benefits of not using all those nasty petroleum-based materials for paving. Then there’s the safety and quality-of-life aspect: if don’t make the roads smoother people probably won’t drive as fast! Just ask Dale Nunamann, he’ll tell ya.

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Anonymous said...

Go to the cobleskill diner and loose your tires in the holes there. They are never fixed. Some are a foot deep. How should pay to fix them, Its a private drive and the owners should be made to fix it. Rita

Anonymous said...

Dale Nunaman AKA dum dum num num will tell u the world is flat too cause he's retarded.

Anonymous said...

Dale is still a firm believer of placing sand on top of ice instead of salt to melt the ice. Well idiot it doesn't work the problem with schoharie county people don't see what the rest of the world is doing, trying to save a penny isn't worth someone's life. Ya ask Dale he knows everything.

Anonymous said...

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Anonymous said...

Wait till spring when Dum-Dum-Num-Num plays with his super-vac street sweeper. The bald head eagles out the window if that thing makes the streets like ever so "Mr." CLEAN!!!! voted schoharie county biggest retarded person of 2008

Anonymous said...

Village/Town meger is going to save taxpayers nothing, with Dale Nunamann running anything.

Anonymous said...

How much fuel does Dale Nunamann burn up in a day. He rides around the village/town all day doing absolutely nothing but trying to get town vs. village officals to fight all day. Not one word that comes out of his mouth is the truth. You got my vote next year DUM DUM you bet ya!!!!

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Donna#2 said...

I love you Dale!

Anonymous said...

Dale unamm ask that everyone stops drinking village water. It's may not be safe as he does the water treatment for it.

Anonymous said...

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Please Mr. Mayor bring back Phil Taylor someone you can trust and is loyal to the community. Unlike Mr. Nunamann.

Donna#2 said...

Dale are you coming over tonight I called your cell, but your not answering, I went to a friends dildo party and got you a 3 inch penis extention so now it will be total of 4 inches, can't wait to see you we will have fun.. call me back asap.

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Anonymous said...

We don't found this very funny!
What are we 10 yrs old again

Anonymous said...

O yeah DUM DUM NUM NUM ass kisser. I am still fucking laughin.. Have fun with that 16 inches tonight. You know you will never know what 16 inches is like. You will never keep these roads clear this year Loser.

Anonymous said...

Dale Nunamann isn't what you read here. But has some problems like us all. So I'm asking that you stop posting stuff that isn't true. Stop yourself and think of all that Dale has done for not himself but you as people he has helped.
President of the Eagles,
Firefighter as well as Chief when the Flood of 1996 almost killed a family (he saved); now Head of the county Fire Services and Haz-Mat,
Village highway super.( River St. redoing, and now asked to take the town Super b/c of the job he's done in the village. If not for Dale, Middleburgh could be just like many villages in Schoharie Co. that are failing. I ask that people that read this to think of the good that he has do for us all!!
Thank You Mrs. Baker

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O I know, Dale is the best!!! That's why I wrote this song for him.

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Now you talk about your childhood wishes, you can even eat the dishes

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Anonymous said...

http://www.northernhovercraft.com/rescues.html

Mrs. Baker do you believe the world is flat too? Dale never rescued anybody, he’s to fucking fat. The credit goes to Averil Park Fire Dept. like the article states so freaking read it…. Those guys stayed in the trees for 10-12 hours, he left them and went back to drinking beer back at the bar. As you read the article Dale never called for help, State Police called for help. Eagles club is throwing his ass out. O I forgot also he is the only one running the town and village, so yeah of course he gets all the credit. He can’t even read. Mrs. Baker, BAKE ME A CAKE cause obviously you don't know truth. What’s your next post he and built the new Basset Health Care in town of Middleburgh too?
I'm just a person telling the truth and sick of Dale’s bullshit lies also,

Yours truly,
A concerned Breakabeen resident.
Hope to see ya hunting season Dale please join me one last time!!!!

Anonymous said...

10 more mops heads down the drain doo dah, doo dah, o doo dah day!

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Anonymous said...

I ask who is posting this? The fact that most of this are lies. Make me believe you are having a hard time understand yourself, that Mr. Nunamann is just a person like you. That handles himself different then you. Mr. Nunamann knows a tons of things, most will never know. Where in your posting is it thar, Cheif Nunamann was working with the NYSP to get the Maxwell family out of the tree. Dale knew that water would have taken someone life that night. So if this is someone that is better then Mr. Nunamann, I ask you to stop or tell us really what this is about. The Nunamann family has away and will aways be a name to remember here. Just as the Armlin's & Becker's are now. The original post was about potholes in Cobleskill not even Middleburgh, so let me ask if you can read. So again I ask you to stop or get alife! I'm friend's with the Nunamann's, and know that he has had a hand in many things like; River & Main St work, the new water plant, rolling his budget over to save for truck for town and village, sidewalks upper Main St, the life saving of 5 people with the fire company and starting the Haz-Mat team for the county, getting roads paved, getting that new fire truck with a grant for the village of Middleburgh and Schoharie, working with the NYSP to stop kids from painting up stuff in the town, the hotel in Schoharie and now saving the tax payer with cutting his own pay to take on both town and village roads. So I stop there with my facts and ask you again why,who most go this low trying to run his name into the mud.
And in fact Mr. Nunamann was called to Richmonville & Delhi, New York to help save families from flooding there too.

Anonymous said...

more facts, county training center!A pond for firefighting water supply is also expected to be built near a swampy area on the property, said Deputy Fire Coordinator Dale Nunamann.

This year, Nunamann hopes see a gravel access road constructed several hundred yards to the now-cleared site, and electric lines installed.

The training building design is still being evaluated, Nunamann said.

“It’s similar to buying a fire truck,” he said. “You’ve got to go out and look at what other people have.”

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Starting more in Middleburgh, But can't read!
NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF DALE NUNAMANN I, LLC Under Section 203 of the Limited Liability Company Law 1. The name of the limited liability company is: DALE NUNAMANN I, LLC. 2. The Articles of Organization were filed in the Office of the New York Secretary of State on January 15, 2009. 3. The office is to be located in the County of Schoharie. 4. The Secretary of State of New York State has been designated as agent of the limited liability company, upon whom process against it may be served. The Secretary may send process to the company at: P.O. Box 766, Middleburgh, New York. 5. The Company is organized to carry on all lawful activities. 1-24,31;2-7,14,21,28 4384

Anonymous said...

wonder what it is like to be the most hated guy in the world. Yet wake up every morning clueless to what the rest of the world says and thinks about you everyday.

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Anonymous said...

hey 4 posts ago AKA Mrs Baker, I think friend serarch found the one friend, and your gonna have a rough time keeping up with this blog. Is he going to solve world peace too? I bet in your mind he could. Please contact friend search so they can receive their credit points, they found that one friend

Anonymous said...

Potholes are very troublesome and dangerous; some may find this article very amusing but I lost a dear friend in an accident that involved a pothole, so this is no Joke to me. A smooth pave road on my drive home from work is my tax dollars being spent well. If my car dies from hitting a pothole or my CD skips as I hit one on my way home, it would ruin my day. It’s a better way of life in which we all strive for. This is the 21 century not the 16, as much as Schoharie County residents believe, I guess that’s why it’s called slums along the Mohawk. So my first question is will tax dollars go to fixing my road? YES, but only a portion due to miss management from department officials in Gov, State, County, and local municipalities. Earmarks and porkbarrel spending does happen in small towns and villages. It’s so easy to watch your tax dollars being spent where it doesn’t need to be. What is all this equipment we need, all this manpower going to be used for? The more jobs someone offers people the more friends he/she thinks he/she has. You can do more with less. Will taxes go down if we leave dirt roads as dirt roads? NO. Second question is will the insurance companies fund local municipalities the money to fix them? NO. Will insurance companies fund repaving projects? NO. Will the insurance companies fund the damages to my car from a pothole, NO.? Not for mechanical problems, only if involved in an accident? YES, so lets all have accidents. Does an Insurance company fund, controlling deer populations? The fact is that a deer/car accident is one of the top 10 accidents and over a billion dollars a year in damages. NO, of course not, but may influence them a little. Let dirt roads be dirt roads, heck no, pave the roads. The problem is no one will take ownership of a job any more; too many contractors or subcontractors involved upping the price for liability purposes, rather then that agency just doing the work. If speeding is a problem, that’s for another political malfunction to determine and money to be made off that therefore, right into someone’s pocket. Let’s start at the bottom (local gov.) and take this state (NY) back. Let’s not make my CD skip; let’s not make me loose another dear friend. The problem here is the thinking involved with this articles concept. What do we do as drivers when we see a pothole, we swerve around of course. Will we slow down, maybe, maybe not; do we always see them in the middle of the night? What if our friends or family come from out of state and visit, hit a pothole and get into a serious accident with their children. What if we go head on with an on coming vehicle? We die; the insurance companies will pay the fines replace the car. Life insurance pays out (if fortunate) to own a policy. Then we have one less tax payer to pay his/her taxes. Leaving the rest of us to pick up the burden, because you know taxes never go down. I wish these bloggers would put a focus on this blog (potholes). If this individual is so unique maybe you all should consider him for his own blog. Maybe you should have real qualified person to run against him so you don’t have to deal with him no more and his rocket science idea. I know time to time we make comments we are not thinking about. This guy should and needs to really think before he talks. But I also know some individuals it’s hard to think without a brain. Especially in this case maybe he should go to Land of Oz and ask for one, like the scarecrow did. Great thinking among this true town/village superintendent official to think this up in his own fantasy world, sorry we are IN Kansas again Toto.
Sincerely,
Phil McCracken
Middleburgh, New York

Anonymous said...

This guy with many hats that doesn't complete one project should be consider for a Emmy.

Anonymous said...

Dale, when was the last time to came to see mom? We wish that you do stay away from mom. You promised mom and us the world and nothing. Maybe you can put us in your new apartment building. Mom has been good to you for so long doing paper work and everything. I ask that anyone that sees Dale think him for my mom and us; and keep bloging away. Dale should be voted #1 asshole

Anonymous said...

So we stopped talking about him, and we are action like we should. Know matter what you think of someone, we still have to remember that people are just that. I remember the first time I talked to Dale, many years ago when he was just a little guy. He would do any thing to help anyone. He may have family problems now and that's not any of our of concern. Thanks you for stopping.
Ms.Baker

Anonymous said...

Calling for Dale Nunamann to resign from both Village and Town of Middleburgh, his incompetence with water testing and reading reports may lead to someone actually dieing.

Anonymous said...

plowing snow, a monkey could do that in a black dodge p/u o wait we already have that. Thats me
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