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Are you sure about that? I see garbage trucks, delivery trucks (package, furniture, appliance etc.), lawn service trucks, salt trucks, snow plowing trucks etc
by blihp 8y ago
Are you sure about that? I see garbage trucks, delivery trucks (package, furniture, appliance etc.), lawn service trucks, salt trucks, snow plowing trucks etc day-in, day-out.[1] And to do their job, they probably need traverse 95% of the paved roadways on a regular basis. Granted, you don't typically see 18-wheelers tooling around most neighborhoods[2] but there is quite a bit of truck traffic through even moderately populated urban and suburban areas every day.
[1] If your argument is that these are all 'light' vehicles, my city disagrees with you. They recently cited road damage from the variety of garbage hauling services as a reason to limit our options. Not that I entirely buy that as the only or even main reason they did so... local politics and all that.
[2] However they have been known to use secondary streets when they shouldn't.
- shereadsthenews 8y agoWe're talking about California. There are no major cities in California in possession of snow plows and salt trucks. A garbage truck goes down the street once per week, yes. The overwhelming majority of traffic on most city streets is cars and light trucks. The main cause of damage to most city streets is the mere passage of time, and rain.
- btilly 8y agoWe are talking about California. What rain? :-P
- jacobolus 8y agoThankfully CA is now finally pretty well drought free, after getting pretty decent rain the past couple months. https://www.sacbee.com/latest-news/article226462260.html https://www.sacbee.com/latest-news/article226462260.html Drought map https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/CurrentMap/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?CA https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/CurrentMap/StateDroughtMonito... Reservoirs are doing well http://cdec.water.ca.gov/reportapp/javareports?name=rescond.pdf http://cdec.water.ca.gov/reportapp/javareports?name=rescond.... Of course, this is an El Niño year, so we’ll see whether we return to severe drought in the coming years.
- Pxtl 8y agoThe salt and plowing trucks are part of the maintenance of the road needed for the cars. You defeat your own point here.
- blihp 8y agoNot at all. I was making the point that there are lots of trucks on most roads all the time, not that they aren't necessary. Also, while salt makes the road drive-able in the winter, it actually does long term damage to the road (increases the number of freeze/thaw cycles.) Similar with plows: they increase the rate at which the road surface deteriorates. While they both are necessary to keep roads operable for vehicles in the winter, they are the opposite of maintenance longer term as far as the road surface is concerned.