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Originally Posted by swaghauler
I would say that you should institute some sort of "deterioration check" to see if the roads degrade or not. Around my house, we have many dirt roads with heavily compacted bases (due to the heavy farm machinery driven on them) that only need to be graded once a year. They are just that packed down. There are also highways out there which are overbuilt (the Autobahn comes to mind immediately) that will fair better than your typical US highway.
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The US used to put concrete then asphalt down, then decided double asphalt was cheaper, so now high ways don't last as long.