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I live in DC and I recently took a trip to a rural part of America. I must say I was a bit shocked. I have been in my little metro bubble for so long that I was
by nawtacawp 9y ago
I live in DC and I recently took a trip to a rural part of America. I must say I was a bit shocked. I have been in my little metro bubble for so long that I was completely out of touch with how rough rural areas are looking.
- MandieD 9y agoThere are towns that have given up maintaining parts of their road networks and are intentionally turning some hard-to-maintain paved roads into gravel roads - "depaving". https://www.wired.com/2016/07/cash-strapped-towns-un-paving-roads-cant-afford-fix/ https://www.wired.com/2016/07/cash-strapped-towns-un-paving-... Even my home state (Texas), which isn't in an obvious economic crisis (though its budget situation is arguably a self-made crisis by our crazy legislature), has been doing it for a few years now: https://www.texastribune.org/2013/08/19/conversion-of-roads-to-gravel-met-with-concern/ https://www.texastribune.org/2013/08/19/conversion-of-roads-... But Michigan is the example I remember hearing about the most: http://www.ttnews.com/articles/lacking-proper-funding-maintenance-states-turn-some-paved-roads-gravel http://www.ttnews.com/articles/lacking-proper-funding-mainte...
- selimthegrim 9y agoI live in New Orleans but am not a native. Visiting DC this past fall (although not for the first time, I have been there when I was little), coming out of the Metro station on King St (in Alexandria) was absolutely cause for my jaw to drop.