“we muss put salt down aand plow the roads cause safteee first!!”

“we muss put salt down aand plow the roads cause safteee first!!”
>spring hits
“ohnoo! where did all these potholes come from its costin us moniee!”

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roads require maintenance what's your point

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Obviously his point is that they just shouldn't plow roads in the winter. Duh.

from it getting cold outside fuck stick. Wash your rusted out shitbox you got from your mom once in a while and it won't be so bad

>muh roads
statist scum

A lot of it has to do with how local government awards road construction. Cheapest quote almost always wins with no regards to the quality of the road material.

The salt isn't what's causing the cracks and potholes you fucking imbecile.

As someone who bids jobs like these, I've seen it many times stipulated in the project specs that it will automatically go to the lowest bidder.

No shit you stupid fuck, OP is talking about plow trucks making the potholes.

Yeah but if the job went to a company that would actually build a good road people would whine about the cost.
The reality is that people just like to complain.

>Not living in a city that uses salt cumie trails
>Not living in a desert where the snow goes away by noon.

>what is freeze-thaw weathering

holy shit take me back to georgraphy

this doesn't explain how the cracks start there. freshly laid pavement is perfectly sealed

>“we muss put salt down aand plow the roads cause safteee first!!”
Actualy salt makes it even more dangerous:
>snow surface has some grip
>slat it
>snow melts
>temperature drops over night, more snow falls
>salt water freezes
>ice surface with no grip forms

the potholes are caused by water freezing UNDER the roads and when it thaws the water runs off and the road above collapses leaving a crater.

NOTHING to do with plows or salt

that's why smart areas throw gravel on top of snow when its over an inch.

/thread

the cracks start off small from the road heating up and cooling down, causing thermal expansion and contraction, respectively. Water helps pick up the pace from there.

The pavement heats up during the day and cracks when it expands.

it rained in florida pretty bad a month ago and it's not usually supposed to during the winter. Something about the dryness of the road and the sudden rain created pothole hell that has yet to be fully repaired. Shit sucks yo, but that's nature

Then they just go out and salt it again and repeat the process.

Sometimes to save money down the road you have to spend more money now.
If you spent more money now though and you still have to spend money down the road just fucking kill yourself, or HODL.

lets build roads out of _____________.

SOLAR PANELS

Tarmac with steel-wool to use a induction device to "heal" cracks by heating it up from the inside.

>perfectly sealed
Have you seen asphalt? Concrete develops hairline cracks over time from flexing

Bread

Move to Rawlins, Wyoming. Where thgeu barely plow and the snow doesn't go away for weeks. Anything that isn't a truck or SUV can't get around town. At least until the snow has been packed down by traffic.

Aww fuck, This guys right.

>living in the north

This is true UNTIL the road begins to crack from it and the problem worsens exponentially from water now getting in form the surface

>not living in a giant pothole, the state

wtf

more like take you back to english

>live in Florida
>come to Detroit for work
>mfw driving from airport to downtown Detroit in little Kia soul rental car

Holy fucking shit what is wrong with this state.

>salt cummie trails
what?

gold

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Concrete
Canada fag here, there's a concrete highway near me that was built over a decade ago and it's still in perfect condition. The other, newer asphalt highways are all falling apart though