There seems to be one spot on Waltham Street, just after the Marrett Road intersection heading into town, which isn't getting repaved or somehow renewed. It is between the Marrett intersection and the high school. It could also use a crosswalk as there is no sidewalk on east side of the street for local kids to get to the Marrett crosswalk. Kids from this side of the street have to either cross without a crosswalk or walk down the street (with no sidewalk) against traffic to cross over to pick up the sidewalk on the west side of the street.

Good Lord! Numero Uno: CROSBY ROAD, which is the road that swings through Maria Hastings Schoolyard! The condition of that road has been deplorable for years! (And, the tacky portable classrooms don't make the property any more attractive, which is used to be.)

Mass Ave pavement in the commercial section of the center is a source of embarrassment, especially if one thinks about the desire of the Town to attract business. The Town not only needs to repave, it needs to raise its standards of quality in its paving projects and in its requirements for contractors repaving areas that are dug up.

My biggest complaints are Adams Street heading toward Burlington and Mass Ave through the town center. Both are on the list to be repaved this year, which is great, but I'm not sure why Adams wasn't repaved sooner. It's been in bad shape for years. Instead, the town repaved Worthen Road last year, which seemed premature. It had a few potholes, but no major deficiencies as far as I could tell. Then they went and used some weird sort of paint for the crosswalks, which discolored very quickly and started to peel off from the road surface. They recently had to go back, grind down the crosswalk markings and repaint them after less than a year! The bike lane chevrons are still a dingy gray from whatever discoloration occurred. Hopefully they won't use that type of paint in the future.

My other gripes when it comes to road paving are (1) uneven patches following utility work and (2) manhole covers that are located in the lane such that your wheels have to pass right over them. I don't understand why this is so common around here, but it sure is annoying to have to slalom around manhole covers, e.g. on Bedford Street between Worthen and 128, or else suffer a bumpy ride. I grew up in another part of the country and don't recall roads there being like this.

I believe that asphalt factories close during the winter....so mild winter or not, no asphalt, no repaving.
Speaking as a lifelong curmudgeon, I have learned that there's usually an explanation that makes sense.
For example: Sometimes very bad roads are not repaved before less-bad roads because there is an anticipated need to tear up that bad road for gas line replacement or drainage upgrade, or sewer replacement or water pipe relining. Obviously it serves the town to wait until the underground work is done before spending big bucks to rebuild or repave the street. Sometimes roads that don't look as bad as some others are re-done first because they are contiguous with roads that are in need, and it is more cost-effective to repave the road in a group with surrounding roads.
Call me silly, but I have faith in the professional capabilities of our town engineering staff.

I would rather the town address the need for stop signs. Where I live there are two intersections that scream for one. Someday there will be an accident.

Tower Road

As a resident of Adams street, I would like to see speed bumps instead of repaving !

Getting some interesting answers here. Keep them coming!

diane: You're absolutely right! The last time I was up Deering Road, I thought maybe they had entered a Third World Country! Why is it that road has been so badly neglected, anyway?

What about Marrett between spring street and the Marrett/Lincoln intersection? Due to a poor job of paving after a sewer/gas line repair, when you drive heading west down that part of the road, it feels like your car is leaning to the right too much and that you are driving right into a ditch. It is AWFUL and I have noticed a great deal more drivers are trying to avoid the "leaning aspect" by driving over the double yellow lines.....an accident waiting to happen!!!!