Can we reduce road maintenance costs without compromising safety?

USA people are in to big of a hurry. They want their stuff and they want it NOW.

Heavy trucks are the major destructor of roads. Starting and stopping a heavy truck on a warm to hot day literally destroys almost all surfaces. Cold weather does its part on concrete surfaces.

People are in such a hurry to get what they want and a lack of city planning has taken things off the trains and quadrupled the number of trucks being used. People want a store within walking distance of their neighborhood. There was a time most manufacturers, warehouses, and mega distributors, and sellers,were located by train tracks or waterways. It took time and planning to go get the supplies you needed for the next week/month.

Now the world functions on tomorrow or today.

How about we break up the road working unions. They do fuck all with the time they have shutting down the road to half ass filling a pothole.

Let companies handle road fixing. The unions can build the damn roads, cause sure as shit they cant fix em.

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No reason to.

Your taxes would remain the same, and even more of it would be skimmed.

Heck... In corruptifornia they just tax the hell out of you for road repairs and then never repair the roads. They don't care about your safety or tearing up your vehicle.

We just don’t pave roads here, only cities have pavement
If you want the road you have to use it, otherwise it will grow over

The reality is that the highway construction industry has learned that lower initial cost does not pay off except for light traffic roads as its not long term durable.

They have changed road construction methods a lot over the last 20 years based on how the previous roads lasted, or failed.

A major issue is bridges. With rare exceptions most states have many billions of dollars of deferred rebuild or replacement bridges in their State; and bridges do collapse or have significant failures (which are then much more costly to deal with).

The one real exception is Minnesota. They had a major interstate highway bridge collapse in Minneapolis during rush hour. Lots of loss of life and injuries.

Minnesota raised gas prices and went on a decade plus bridge repair and replacement program and have eliminated virtually all structurally deficient or obsolete bridges in the State of Minnesota by now.

Here's a great New York Times "Retro Report" video that tells the story and what they found out about how the State Highway department was funded.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74JNl5n-YdI

Just went through new mexico was surprised how shitty the roads. I thought mexicans love doing roads I see em doin em all the time in TN.

Yes, we can reduce road maintenance and construction costs by using products like Bitumen Emulsions, an eco-friendly product. It has a low viscosity and doesn't require pre-heating. This was launched in the Kochi refinery of Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) and has so far proved to be an excellent product for maintaining the roads and keeping the safety standards at par and, at the same time, helping the environment.