The roads are in such bad shape because sprawling road (read: car) infrastructure is unsustainable and bankrupts cities. What we need is economically sustainable micromobility and public transit infrastructure.
Building roads is only sexy every twenty years or so. Maintaining roads has never been sexy, to my knowledge.
Moving away from roads and cars almost entirely? I dunno how we get political will for that.
Maintaining roads has never been sexy
Well I can’t say building or maintaining roads gets me sexually aroused, but why is maintaining roads not “sexy”?
Politicians don’t campaign on maintainance of infrastructure, so it’s not sexy.
The increasing size of American cars has done a lot of damage to our roads. They’re less safe for the roads, for pedestrians, and even sometimes for the occupants.
Tangentially, thanks to red light structure in the city, I often make just as much forward progress as the cars around me on my bike.
Road crews carry the world on their SHOULDERS. haha punny
He isn’t wrong. Your bucket of bolts is gonna rattle tf apart on that road.