I live off HWY-20 in Northern Florida. It was virtually perfect with no patches or holes for its entire length. This year they tore up the entire thing and repaved it. Now, it is “improved” in that it looks newer. But there was nothing, and I mean NOTHING, wrong with it before. It had another 30 years left. Why did they repave it? Well, I’m guessing it was because money was available from the federal government to do so. I really don’t know of any roads bad enough to require repaving. Why are they busy doing it? I suspect it’s all these shovel ready jobs they were anxious to spend money on. Are there states that actually need the money and the repaving? Undoubtedly. I’d say almost any place up north.
If they have the money they will spend the money. It’s not about helping the public it’s about crony capitalism. Reagan was right. The public knows how to spend its own money. The government merely wastes it.
There’s a stretch of highway (I-435) that runs through Johnson County Kansas that is constantly being torn up and rebuilt but it is constantly in need of repair. It does have very heavy truck traffic. In some places the road is so bad it is a threat to safety. Many accidents in what we call the Olathe triangle.
Yeah thats how it goes. Several miles of decent road repaved, when a half mile of potholes go untouched.
“Shovel ready” jobs!