Failures in roads like that are due to lack of maintenance. Yes, we can build roads can last much longer, but there are more important uses for your tax dollars. Like gender studies.
California 1) mandates rubberized asphalt and recycled asphalt which fails very quickly and 2) it spends gazillions of dollars on illegals. You can draw a direct inverse line between spending on illegals and the horrendous degradation of our infrastructure.