If you have ever driven on the side streets of Countryside Village, you have driven over some pretty atrocious potholes and you have officially driven on substandard roads. Todd Fitzer is the Douglas County Engineer and former Omaha City Engineer, responsible for all maintenance, snow plowing and inspections for county roads. As the former Omaha City Engineer, he has a vast knowledge of roads in and around Omaha. He explains how some roads in the city remain substandard..
“Well, the substandard roads were never paid for in the first place,” Fitzer said. “If you move into a neighborhood that only has four edge asphalt streets, no sidewalks, no curb and gutter, no storm sewer, none of those things when you buy a house with substandard streets. It is not realistic to expect the city to then come in and rebuild those streets to a standard you never paid for to begin with.”
A big issue today with getting substandard roads to standard is the cost that it would take private homeowners to put up…