Why U.S. Roads And Highways Are So Bad

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The roads, highways and bridges across the country are funded, owned and maintained by a complex cluster of different government agencies at the local, state and federal levels. Roads and highways are vital to economic growth and play a key role in American culture. But more than 30% of Americans say the roads in their area are in need of urgent repair.

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Why U.S. Roads And Highways Are So Bad

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  1. I have an Idea. Here me out.
    •Make roads out of steel to make them durable.
    •Make tires of steel to decrease friction
    •But to save expensive steel's cost, Since everyone is going on same path, decrease the width of road and make cars drive one behind another.
    •We can attach all the cars.
    •We can increase the size of cars to fit more people.
    •And how about putting one big engine in front instead of putting engine on every car?
    •We can run an electric line on top to power the car and decrease the cost and save pollution

    I'll call this idea as Futuristic Track Pods.

    So sad qe can't do that in US rhat is ruled by oil companies lobbying govts

  2. I enjoy watching mr Leno's car show on you tube, where he always goes for a ride in the vehicle of the day. it always amazes me how shabby and poor much of the environment is. and that is in california, I assume one of the richer parts, given that Leno is a multi millionaire I don't think his car shop / museum is in the ghetto.

    Americans are weird, they want to be rich but then they don't want to pay to be in a nice place. they rather live in a shithole , and make their house pretty and build a wall or hedge around it so they don't have to see the outside crap. (if it's not broken infrastructure or trash, it's ugly billboards for miles on miles )

  3. If those are bad roads, come to Romania & see the ones here are even potential deadly to cars & bikes & I don’t speak about the old ones but the brand new ones just build!

  4. Because our criminal politicians steal. They built the roads with a way snaller budget but cant even "maintain" our roads with a much larger budget.

    If they leave the roads in bad shape cars have to repair and replace sooner. Both auto unions and government benefits on tax at either the auto repair shop or DMV if you buy a different vehicle.

  5. Southwest and Mountainous states are excellent. Excellent Storm water drains are better. Storm Water drains on the sides or in Meridian regions are better. Regardless of Pavement's Nature the water stagnation should be preventable for serviceability of the Road.

  6. Yes there are some unmaintained roads in the US (states and cities really). But that's compared with equally crowded 1st world countries. Wait till you come to Nigeria. Cameroon. Liberia and other African countries. US is highly commercialized. Many cities have private businesses that operate fleets of heavy vehicles. US cities are far busier than in under populated Canada for example. So it depends on the city, region and state.

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