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[quote user="edbenton"] Where the fault lies on the condition of the US Highway system it is Not the Trucks cars or any of the Users.  It lies with teh GOVERMENT and them alone.  Why is that you say name the people that come up with the standards that the Engineers have to design the Bridges and roads to meet the Goverment.  Name the people that refuse to make the Concrators have a Warrenty peroid for any problems in the Roads the Goverment.  In Europe if there is a problem with the road the Concrator that did the last repavement job has to warrenty the ROAD for 30 years.  Here as soon as they are done they are off the hook.  Also here in the States it is the Cheapest bid that meet or does not meet the Specs gets the contract.  Europe they require the contract to go to the Longest Warrenty issued on the Contract.  Not who bids the lowest.    Here in the US we might use 5% asphalt in blacktop.  Europe IIRC from other Forums it is 15% hpolds up a hell of alot better.  Also we have a 6 inch thick layer of roadbead.  There it is 30 inches which one will last longer.  Remember the FHWSA writes the construction standards.  <div style="clear:both;"></div> [/quote] I think that is an important point.  The government owns the roads, so why would they be motivated to make them last?  Bad roads are cash cows for revenue.  Every pothole and every traffic jam has hundreds of taxpayers fuming in their cars, and this culminates in besieging the government to take action now.  Nothing could be easier than collecting more taxes from taxpayers demanding government action.  This is politician heaven.
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