[martin_fierro]

Counties in ... Pennsylvania have begun downgrading asphalt roads to cheaper chip-and-seal road, also known as "poor man's pavement."

The real news here is that PA roads were ever anything better than chip-and-seal.

[Willie Green]

The real news here is that PA roads were ever anything better than chip-and-seal.

I always thought "chip-and-seal" was something they did to the asphalt roads to try to make them last longer.
But we also had dirt roads that they soaked with crappy oil to keep the dust down.
And while other places had gravel roads, we had "cinder roads" in Pittsburgh (which was a good/cheap way of getting rid of the cinders from the still mills anat. Cinders were also used on all the other roads during the winter instead of salt.)

[SoothingDave]

And I thought PA was the only state dumb enough to think spreading oil and chips was an alternative to fixing the roads properly!

The potholes assume their prior existence after about 5 days of settling.