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Well... We have been engineering better roads. Compared to brick or packed earth, asphalt is high tech. New materials and mixes are researched and tried. Some r
by daveguy 9y ago
Well... We have been engineering better roads. Compared to brick or packed earth, asphalt is high tech. New materials and mixes are researched and tried. Some recent roads seem to have lighter finish than traditional blacktop. You are right though, it is a cost vs durability issue.
- zhdc1 9y agoThis, by far. I can't tell you how many times I've had to listen to my significant other (a roadway engineer) talk about new types of asphalt designed to reduce noise pollution, last longer, or fulfil some sort of edge-case requirement. Surprisingly, for as bad as roadway construction is in the states (and it's absolutely awful), the US apparently leads the rest of the world in the study of roadway materials.