Asphalt melts and softens in Texas all the time. Especially squirt top roads you can see tire tracks and foot prints in it all the time. Same for squirt sealed parking lots that are jet black and can hit 140+ surface temps you can feel the heat coming through your soles stand too long and you can burn your feet even in shoes. Texas gets crazy hot. I have measured 245F on my black dashboard then proceeded to cook some cookies on it with my toaster oven pan and some dough cubes they turned out great just to prove a point to the students. We have also cooked bacon, eggs and made grilled cheese sandwich on black top it’s a great lesson in solar insolation. All of these are just what we in the South call summer.
This crap just makes me irritable as all get out.
That, and seeing the sheep out there bleating in unison “WE NEED TO FIX THE CLIMATE! WE NEED TO FIX THE CLIMATE!”
They swallow it just as completely as “FOUR LEGS GOOD, TWO LEGS BAD! FOUR LEGS GOOD, TWO LEGS BAD!”
Asphalt pavement doesn’t melt. Asphalt tar products get pretty gooey.
Asphalt roadways well get softer and big trucks or a lot of traffic will make them rut.
Heaving asphalt at stop signs or signals is caused by heavy trucks stopping.
The newer asphalt mix designs reduce this.
Modern intersection design analysis is used to determine whether the intersection should be asphalt or concrete based on traffic loading and environmental conditions.
Sorry for getting technical. I retired after 30 years as a city and county engineer.