Re:Road resurfacing during the daytime without stopping traf...
by kube-system on Tuesday May 07, 2024 @08:42PM
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Gentle vertical and horizontal deflections do not put undue wear on a car. This is why it is okay for roads to have things like turns. When cars go around roundabouts, through residential chicanes, or over properly designed speed humps at reasonable speeds, it does not put any more wear on a car than normal road features.
By individual items: there's 6 items in narrowing, which I think is reasonable to say don't increase maintenance. There's 8 vertical deflections, which are all increasing. There's three in horizontal deflection, I'll give you roundabouts (I've argued enough about those elsewhere), so that's 2 more increasing and 1 not. For blocking, there's four, all of which are likely to increase travel distance.
So 6 + 1 = 7 vs 8 + 2 + 4 = 14. 7 out of 21 is the vast majority?
Pot holes clearly fit under vertical and horizontal deflection. Possibly block or restrict access. Deferred maintenance could be a general category of traffic calming.