The cost
of milling and resurfacing an asphalt road in 2010 was $75,000 per lane mile.
Now, in 2017 it costs $252,922.
A lane
mile is one lane of a road. Milling and resurfacing a mile of 2-lane road was
$150,000 in 2010. This cost didn’t
include repairing the road bed. The cracks in the asphalt surface and pot holes
indicated that the road bed has deteriorated.
This costs more where the bed needs to be replaced. So, in 2010, if the
entire road bed needed to be replaced, then repairing one mile of 2-lane road
would have cost $300,000 per mile.
Now in
2017, road costs have more than tripled to $700,000 to restore a mile of 2-lane
asphalt road.
All roads
were ignored for a long time, especially in the 2008 to 2016 period. Transportation funds were wasted on bike
lanes that required new curbs. There was a war on cars and big campaigns to
expand rail that failed. Now our roads
are in even worse shape. The real cost of UN Agenda 21 implementation in the US
was in the $trillions.
There are
no sites on the web with the average cost history of road construction and
maintenance work. I suspect this is one
scandal government has managed to suppress.
Norb
Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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