I think that people doing their own roads will have uneven results as you travel. I don’t think that’s a positivity. I don’t think anybody wants to go from pavement to dirt to pavement to dirt to “Holy crap, this is road is cratery”.
Yeah, it’s not a thing for today but it really was fascinating— the whole book was pretty awesome IMO
Agreed. When my late grandparents moved to Damascus, Maryland in the 1950s, their street was a commons cared for by the property owners. Since each owner had little interest in doing the whole of the street, the street was horribly deteriorated.
My grandfather, a good Christian man, had his own little paving company back then, so he generously used his own resources to ultimately bring the street to a usable condition. Eventually, the town took over the street and it has remained usable ever since.