Why is it so expensive and is there an alternative out there that won’t break so easily especially in the winter? My state is spending like a billion dollars a year on roads that they’ll probably have to fix in 5 years, it really seems like a huge waste of money.
Good Public transportation would fix a lot of these costs I know but what other road materials/solutions are out there?
Thank you for the answers and for putting up with my follow up questions. I’m learning a lot!
Roman roads exist over 2000 years later, and are still in use, because they made the foundations about 30m deep.
I’m not a road enthusiast but I want to point out that such large cobblestones with irregular surfaces and gaps in between may not be optimal for heavy trucks going across them at over 100 km/h.
They were smoother when they were maintained, several of them have been paved over with asphalt, and they hold up
Roman roads don’t see 80000Lb semi trucks rolling over them.