Re:How Much Does a Mile of Road Cost?
by asdff on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @01:08AM
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Traffic on roads could stop tomorrow and you'd still need to resurface the entirety of the road network anywhere with a winter season every 5-10 years. Thermal expansion and contraction are serious forces for infrastructure, outweighing traffic in most places I imagine (if most places aren't large cities). Didn't matter much back when we used brick or dirt.
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Re:How Much Does a Mile of Road Cost?
by beatgammit on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @09:36AM
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Sure, but they do contribute to the cost of maintaining roads. We need to figure out roughly what percentage of road maintenance costs come from vehicles and charge individual vehicles based on their rough contribution to maintenance costs. It's not a terribly hard calculation, especially since you can directly compare with roads that are infrequently used by trucks.