How cheap the city gets?

That’s how the city patched up the cracks on the street.  I took this picture of townhomes on one of my usual routes with the boys on Sunday.   The white strip of plastic thing will wear off sooner or later.  Underneath the white strip is some sort of black goo to patch up the cracks.  When the white strip of plastic wears off, the black goo-ey thing will then be dried but it is kinda slippery when the road is wet or if there’s snow on the road.  Why can’t they resurface the entire street with asphalt?  The city is that poor?  I don’t think so!