Originally Posted by
big john
Here in the Los Angeles area it's really a mixed bag. Some areas have beautiful road surfaces while many others are terrible. Some major roads are broken and full of holes with big chunks of asphalt bouncing around. Some of this may be due to roads which were built as residential have become carriers of tens of thousands of cars and trucks.
A lot of the older areas have roads made of concrete. These roads can be some of the worst with sharp edged and heaves and huge cracks. This is earthquake country, after all.
It costs a lot to fix roads and we have a lot of roads that need fixing.
That is exactly my point. Invest in research to prevent roads needing fixing. Because that will save a huge amount of money down the line.
So likely is that it isn't possible givennature (freeze and thaw in the north that messes up the road, earthquake as you describe it that breaks it, some mentioned poor soil underneath the roads in Texas).