Anyone who’s driven through Benton Harbor lately would have noticed that there is a pothole problem with side streets, and City Manager Darwin Watson this week tried to explain the difficulties of repairing all of them. At Monday’s city commission meeting, Watson said that the city gets about 700 thousand dollars a year from the state to fix roads, but can only spend a certain fraction of that on what’s known as local streets:
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Watson estimates that the city would need a million dollars a year to keep all of the local streets in good repair, and another million a year for other street-related maintenance. He says, at the current rate, it’ll take the city about 20 years to even get around to all of them.
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