Are you saying that it doesn’t freeze in England?
Here, in Wisconsin, they use the poorest (I won’t say cheapest, because none of it is cheap) materials possible. The DOT doesn’t care when the roads crack and peel because it just means more work and more $$$ for them. There is no interest at the higher state govt. levels in producing a durable road.
I should have mentioned the major freeway in Milwaukee a couple of years ago that fractured into huge peeling & dangerous pieces the year it was built!