The Roads

[John]

I want the government off of the roads.

[John]

Is this how governments think of the roads:
The Patriot- "This is the kings highway"

[Russell Kanning]

I vote for no taxfunded roads in free grafton. i haven't had good experiences with them in the past.

[littlehawk]

I prefer dirt roads. No maintainence. People will drive slower too. I got tired of being passed and flipped off while my horses pull my buggy.

[Russell Kanning]

we had to maintain our dirt driveway
but we can all do it differently

[cathleeninnh]

Our quarter mile dirt road has needed many thousands of dollars of work in the last three years. A lot of that was labor and equipment rental. I wouldn't have wanted a town maintained road, though. We worked with the 2 other neighbors on the road.

Cathleen

[MaineShark]

I was behind plows at various spots, the last few weeks.

One was a private plow.  The operator turned the sander on whenever he approached an icy spot, and turned it off when he reached a dry spot.  As soon as there was a safe place to pull over, he did, and let me pass.

On another occasion, I was heading up 93.  The plow truck was all over the road, and I was barely able to safely pass him.  As soon as I came even with him, I could see that he was following another plow truck, in the same lane (instead of staggered), so they were accomplishing nothing by having a second truck.  Actually, though, they were accomplishing less than nothing, because the truck in the lead was plowing and sanding, while the second truck was just plowing his sand back off the road.  I wonder how much sand, salt, diesel fuel, and equipment life was being wasted by that second plow?  Gotta love the DOT...

Joe

[Free libertarian]

^^^ No Joe, don't you get it ?  They were "creating jobs" !   

[Lloyd Danforth]

I prefer dirt roads. No maintainence. People will drive slower too. I got tired of being passed and flipped off while my horses pull my buggy.

What they call gravel roads here in Grafton, which are more like dirt have to be graded once or twice a year, so, maintenance is costly.  The initial expense of paving and repairing paving when it goes to hell, would definitely outweighs that cost.

[John]

Lots of paved roads get nasty frost heaves. Dirt roads? Not so much.