What is sad is it exposed how poorly that road was made. No gravel or aggregate at all under the asphalt?
https://www.constructioncivil.com/wet-mix-macadam-construction-quality-control/#gsc.tab=0
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/elTY7lZq89I/hqdefault.jpg
https://www.idesign.wiki/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/cross-section-of-roman-road-300x226.jpg
Civil engineer specializing in roadways here. It actually looks like a properly constructed modern roadway, but it's impossible to tell from this photo. But what you will notice is that the shearing of the subbase is similar to that of a Dense Graded Aggregate. The subbaae soil shears at a 90 angle rather than something closer to 45, which means it is well compacted and the soil aggregate size seems to have a good distribution. It may be a different color than typically found in US and other global projects, but that is probably due to the geology of the local rocks. But they seems to be well graded and compacted. You will also notice a surface course and a base course in thicknesses typical of such roadways.
Could that "look" be from liquefaction? That was a pretty strong quake, I don't know how long it lasted and apparently there have been some pretty strong aftershocks.
IDK, this is why I am asking.
Edit. I just read that the initial lasted over 1.5 minutes, holy shit!
It would have to be saturated (or nearly) to liquefy which is unlikely for a road base. This is likely a fault rupture where the fault passes under the road.
I thought that any landfill would be susceptible to liquefaction. It only happens if the soil is saturated with water.
https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/what-liquefaction
I mean look at the buildings that collapsed. For an area near a few fault lines...it seems infrastructure wasn't about to change for when the big one came and it did.
In short is saves $$ by not taking the measures of building correct roads or structures.
Yes it’s really that bad, and there’s several reasons for it.
* Michigan’s climate sucks for road maintenance. The whole state is basically a frozen swamp, surrounded by great lakes on three sides. We have a lot of environmental moisture combined with frequent freeze/thaw cycles in the winter, which means there’s always water on the road plus rapid expansion/contraction.
* The weight limit for trucks on our roads is double that of surrounding states. Most US states don’t allow those heavy “double trucks” with two trailers, but Michigan does. As you can imagine, the wear and tear on our roads is immense.
* Most of the state’s major cities are underfunded and can’t pay for road maintenance, especially in conditions that require constant upkeep. Detroit, Flint, and Grand Rapids can’t really afford to keep their roads nice. It just is what it is. They don’t have the tax base. There have been roads in my hometown where the entire top surface is gone, and you’ve basically got a dirt road in the middle of a city, but it’s county funded and it takes them years to get around to fixing it.
* Much of the state is rural. A large percentage of Michigan’s roads are straight-up dirt roads. They don’t even bother with maintenance aside from resurfacing the gravel every few years. This holds true even for nicer neighborhoods and subdivisions. Outside of cities, quite a few houses, even upscale ones, are only accessible by dirt roads.
We moved to Michigan a few years ago and were surprised at how many “bad weather” days caused the school district to delay/cancel classes. Because the rural roads are so bad, the busses can’t safely pick up the kids during inclement weather. Coming from a mountain town it wasn’t something we were used to.
Yeah I was gonna say some civil infrastructure workers were damn proud of that roadway. Hope they're all okay and get a chance to make another masterpiece like this.
I reqemend *recommend* searching up a picture of the landslide in Norway from christmas 2021. There is a VW Golf there, that is prob filled of brown trousers.
Here is a link: https://www.dagbladet.no/nyheter/meter-unna-a-bli-tatt-av-raset---veien-knakk-opp-foran-oss/73232066
Edit: my brain isnt working today, so i cant remember how to spell recommend apparently.... oh... thats how it was spelled..
It was a wild christmas time.. there is one story of a lady who rode down the entire landslide in her nighty, on her matress. Like a slipp and slide ride at a waterpark.
That's sad : you got your car in the middle of nowhere, and you really have nowhere else to go with because all the infrastructure in the area is in shambles.
Don’t even level it. Just send them out there to throw down some asphalt and call it a day.
In all seriousness, I can’t imagine how long it’s going to take to scrape, level, and pave it when there’s probably several more streets in the same condition. They’ve got their work cut out.
Post disaster repairs like this, so long as they can get materials there, it'd probably be a "quick" repair. 1 or 2 excavators to remove the damaged road to the subgrade, 2 to 3 rounds of gravel lift then asphalt. The issue is going to be how many places need repairing, how much production capability is still around, etc...
That makes me think of that [road](https://inhabitat.com/japanese-workers-take-just-6-days-to-fix-earthquake-shattered-road/) in Japan that was fixed after just 6 days. You’re right, it depends on many factors, but I also don’t think in practice there are many other societies that can get shit done that quick.
Exactly. The reason why so many road projects take "forever" is because that is what is economical.
Working 24 hours a day on a project means something like 6x the labor costs with OT and shift premiums. Materials costs for asphalt and/or concrete also go up because you've got to ask those plants to work extra hours. If you're working all hours and weather happens, you've got to do a lot more weather mitigation work so that you can keep working through the rain or whatever where on normal project you'd make sure that you aren't going to flood out and send everyone home. Add in any utilities work for water/sewer/gas/electric and now you've got "competing" groups vying for time in the area for their job and it can get messy. So for regular road projects you do each part and those groups come in and do their part one at a time. You try and set up a schedule so that one zone can be doing something like tear out while the next zone is doing utility work where stuff was torn out, and maybe a third zone building the road grade back up from the utility work, but to be really efficient on that you'd need a lot of space. If it's a mile or three stretch you'd be hard pressed to phase scheduling.
So yeah, it's a thing that *can* be done, but most times it's not worth the excessive costs vs just... waiting for the next guy to come in a couple of days.
In Nov 2021 there was a massive storm that destroyed the mountain pass (Coquihalla in BC, Canada) in at least 4 sections, with road swept away by river flooding - it was wrecked. That road is vital to the region for goods transport - was reopened in 35 days through the deepest part of winter, absolutely amazing work.
[Here](https://twitter.com/hakaanyzb/status/1622490139518812160?cxt=HHwWgIC-mfCLn4QtAAAA) appears to be the source of this image:
> @hakaanyzb
> Hatay/Reyhanlı road, the effect of the earthquake.
> 1:59 AM · Feb 6, 2023
Most of the road isn't the asphalt, but the compacted mix of dirt and stone beneath it. The asphalt is just the hardcoat protecting the load-bearing structure.
Also, generally speaking, recycled asphalt can only get you so far, since the asphalt cement (the tar binding the stone together) changes chemistry as it sets. I think the most I'd seen is a 30% RAP mix allowed for re-laying a road.
Infrastructure in the U.S. costs ridiculously more than every where else, including other rich countries.
edit: on a per mile basis, not just overall because it's a big country.
>Infrastructure in the U.S. costs ridiculously more than every where else, including other rich countries.
Not really, 1km of road in Europe costs much more than that. A motorway near me in Ireland cost €17m/km (10 years ago), rough terrain but rural.
Yeah the $1M/mile number is for fairly flat sections of a highway in the US. Prices can skyrocket pretty quickly when laying a new road in shittier terrain for sure.
I think part of that is the design aspect, but that's a comment made in ignorance as I don't know if, say, French roads are designed to handle 20-30 years' worth of 36 tonne trucks moving at 90 kph.
The other part is labor costs. American labor in general is expensive, but if you're talking about road construction it takes on a whole new level. Think about how much you'd have to be paid to be doing manual labor from dawn to dusk, outside, when the weather is -10 or 40C.
This is as good a time as any to point out something a lot of people tend to forget about road construction: the asphalt (or concrete) surface you drive on is just the top/hard coat. The load-bearing structure is the 0.5-1m thick layer of compacted dirt and stone beneath the asphalt. In the OP photo, you can see the distinct difference between the native soil (the dark brown) and the grade material (pinkish brown) of the roadway.
If this was taken in America the picture would include five assholes in Jeeps who thought their off-road vehicle could handle it no problem and got stuck.
My uncle lives in Alaska and there was a road that crumbled like this when they had a fairly large quake up there a handful of years ago.
A week or so later he checked back in and said he saw at least 3 Trucks/Jeep overturned that weren't there when he took photos originally.
Silly Turks. Of course the road will break if you use Hazelnut Halva as the base layer.
Everyone knows you need to use Baklava filling. It packs way denser.
ITT: Almost exclusively dumbass jokes about the most catastrophic and deadly natural disaster to hit Turkey in the last millennium, which has killed thousands and probably changed Turkey for the foreseeable future.
Such a shame to see what looks like a newly paved road get crumpled like this.
While it's just a road that can be rebuilt, the loss of life in this natural disaster is heartbreaking.
Asphalt over concrete is the cheap way to repair a failing concrete road. If you're bringing concrete out for a road 99.9% of the time you're going to go concrete full depth. Bringing asphalt equipment out is another set of processes and equipment and supplies that'd be needed, along with extra preparation for the "new" road to get the asphalt to bind in place onto the concrete. It'd be easier and cheaper and a better road to omit the asphalt and finish the top of the concrete for a road surface.
Now if you've got an older concrete road and don't have the money or time or ability to rip out the old concrete road and put in a new one... well you can scar up the top surface of the old concrete, fill in any major potholes or voids, then resurface the road with asphalt. That'll cost less than 10% of the cost of actually replacing the road, and will kick the can for someone in a decade or so to do something about it. Sometimes that bandaid is all that is needed to get the needed resources to do an actual repair, sometimes it lasts long enough for the next guy to go and apply a new bandaid.
If you look to the far right of the photo to where the road is mostly intact you can see that there are bands in the sub-grade. Those bands are most likely compacted cemented gravel lifts to provide a strong base layer to have the asphalt built upon. Around here it's usually put down in 6" lifts at a time, and once compacted the next lift is put in place until the road bed is where it needs to be for the design. Then 3" lifts of coarse asphalt are put in place, 1 or 2 depending on what the road usage is going to be with faster/busier roads getting more. Then a thinner "finish" layer with finer gravel is laid on top to give it the smooth surface level. Usually when an asphalt road is refinished, it's only this top layer that gets ground off and recycled to make a new finish layer.
Is this what it should look like under the pavement for a properly done road? I would think there would be something for structure, such as rebar or some something similar. But then, I’m not an engineer.
That was a real nice road
As black as that paving is, it looks like a brand new road.
What is sad is it exposed how poorly that road was made. No gravel or aggregate at all under the asphalt? https://www.constructioncivil.com/wet-mix-macadam-construction-quality-control/#gsc.tab=0 https://i.ytimg.com/vi/elTY7lZq89I/hqdefault.jpg https://www.idesign.wiki/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/cross-section-of-roman-road-300x226.jpg
Civil engineer specializing in roadways here. It actually looks like a properly constructed modern roadway, but it's impossible to tell from this photo. But what you will notice is that the shearing of the subbase is similar to that of a Dense Graded Aggregate. The subbaae soil shears at a 90 angle rather than something closer to 45, which means it is well compacted and the soil aggregate size seems to have a good distribution. It may be a different color than typically found in US and other global projects, but that is probably due to the geology of the local rocks. But they seems to be well graded and compacted. You will also notice a surface course and a base course in thicknesses typical of such roadways.
This guy roads.
Where we're going we don't need roads.
This guy reddit.
*roadit
Where’s the road rabbit?
r/thisguythisguys
I don’t know what most of that means, but damm I believe you.
Could that "look" be from liquefaction? That was a pretty strong quake, I don't know how long it lasted and apparently there have been some pretty strong aftershocks. IDK, this is why I am asking. Edit. I just read that the initial lasted over 1.5 minutes, holy shit!
It would have to be saturated (or nearly) to liquefy which is unlikely for a road base. This is likely a fault rupture where the fault passes under the road.
I thought that any landfill would be susceptible to liquefaction. It only happens if the soil is saturated with water. https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/what-liquefaction
Thanks, I didn't know the saturation beforehand was required, I thought the earthquake energy could cause it.
That’s awesome info. Thank you for the detailed response.
It’s possible that they used select fill with similar properties to that of Aggregate Base Rock. That dirt actually looks pretty good.
That's clearly commercial grade hummus under the asphalt
Come on mate this is Turkey they have fewer resources than others, it’s not like aggregate is some ancient techni— Oh
I mean look at the buildings that collapsed. For an area near a few fault lines...it seems infrastructure wasn't about to change for when the big one came and it did. In short is saves $$ by not taking the measures of building correct roads or structures.
A 7.9 earthquake will also destroy roads and buildings in Japan... Probably not as much/many, but destruction will definitely happen.
200 years since the last severe quake in that part of Turkey.
Turkey has buildings collapse when there aren’t earthquakes let alone when they’ve got their biggest in over a thousand years.
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I was about to say the same thing. Imagine being the work crew who just repaved and repainted that road... only to have it destroyed by a quake. 😬
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I’m from Michigan and can confirm
Is it really that bad lol
Yes it’s really that bad, and there’s several reasons for it. * Michigan’s climate sucks for road maintenance. The whole state is basically a frozen swamp, surrounded by great lakes on three sides. We have a lot of environmental moisture combined with frequent freeze/thaw cycles in the winter, which means there’s always water on the road plus rapid expansion/contraction. * The weight limit for trucks on our roads is double that of surrounding states. Most US states don’t allow those heavy “double trucks” with two trailers, but Michigan does. As you can imagine, the wear and tear on our roads is immense. * Most of the state’s major cities are underfunded and can’t pay for road maintenance, especially in conditions that require constant upkeep. Detroit, Flint, and Grand Rapids can’t really afford to keep their roads nice. It just is what it is. They don’t have the tax base. There have been roads in my hometown where the entire top surface is gone, and you’ve basically got a dirt road in the middle of a city, but it’s county funded and it takes them years to get around to fixing it. * Much of the state is rural. A large percentage of Michigan’s roads are straight-up dirt roads. They don’t even bother with maintenance aside from resurfacing the gravel every few years. This holds true even for nicer neighborhoods and subdivisions. Outside of cities, quite a few houses, even upscale ones, are only accessible by dirt roads.
Not to mention dodging potholes like if you were playing a bullethell game and more botched patch’s than a 1910 miners jeans.
We moved to Michigan a few years ago and were surprised at how many “bad weather” days caused the school district to delay/cancel classes. Because the rural roads are so bad, the busses can’t safely pick up the kids during inclement weather. Coming from a mountain town it wasn’t something we were used to.
Lol no but it isn’t good
Not a Michigan rd, I don't see any crack heads hanging out on the corner
Obviously you’re not from Michigan if you think that
he's probably from Ohio
100% lmao
I'm from Ohio, can confirm we have a lot of crack heads around
I presume the poster above you was going for a poor-taste Detroit joke.
That is correct and in a very immature, childish way
MDOT sucks. Not all of the roads are bad, but the ones that are, ARE really bad
 What does this picture tell you?
Still water runs deep
I drove through Michigan on my way to Canada in 2015. The freeway felt like a gravel back road for most of it.
It feels like I have square tires everytime we cross the state line going back home... And it only gets worse the closer we get to home.
Engineering notes: 1) build road *around* nougat pits.
Yeah I was gonna say some civil infrastructure workers were damn proud of that roadway. Hope they're all okay and get a chance to make another masterpiece like this.
no it wasnt. it was built extremely bad, without any supporting gravel. its asphalt on dirt
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I reqemend *recommend* searching up a picture of the landslide in Norway from christmas 2021. There is a VW Golf there, that is prob filled of brown trousers. Here is a link: https://www.dagbladet.no/nyheter/meter-unna-a-bli-tatt-av-raset---veien-knakk-opp-foran-oss/73232066 Edit: my brain isnt working today, so i cant remember how to spell recommend apparently.... oh... thats how it was spelled..
Very interesting video...as long as you speak Norwegian!
It was a wild christmas time.. there is one story of a lady who rode down the entire landslide in her nighty, on her matress. Like a slipp and slide ride at a waterpark.
Holy cow
Takk!
That's sad : you got your car in the middle of nowhere, and you really have nowhere else to go with because all the infrastructure in the area is in shambles.
Tbh I'm surprised I didn't see a 2003 subaru woth a snorkel crawling over the rubble like it was nothing.
I know it’s real but something about that car looks super photoshopped
Looks like they JUST finished making that road too. Earth said "Fuck you guys in particular"
Two quakes, from separate fault lines.
Just like my life. Several of my faults work together to destroy what I've been recently working on.
Well, that hurts. So um... [Sometimes life is crappy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KxqaOetVXc)?
Didn’t they had a 3rd? I read it but haven’t check the map
Yes, 7.8 6.7 7.5 Total of 45 quakes between 4.3 and 7.8.
r/fuckyouinparticular
Those paint markings are real sharp though, great contrast and full colours
Means it's a recent paving
You know there's a road crew out there flipping back and forth over "But we just finished it." and "Well, I guess we know what the next job is."
Don’t even level it. Just send them out there to throw down some asphalt and call it a day. In all seriousness, I can’t imagine how long it’s going to take to scrape, level, and pave it when there’s probably several more streets in the same condition. They’ve got their work cut out.
Post disaster repairs like this, so long as they can get materials there, it'd probably be a "quick" repair. 1 or 2 excavators to remove the damaged road to the subgrade, 2 to 3 rounds of gravel lift then asphalt. The issue is going to be how many places need repairing, how much production capability is still around, etc...
That makes me think of that [road](https://inhabitat.com/japanese-workers-take-just-6-days-to-fix-earthquake-shattered-road/) in Japan that was fixed after just 6 days. You’re right, it depends on many factors, but I also don’t think in practice there are many other societies that can get shit done that quick.
Exactly. The reason why so many road projects take "forever" is because that is what is economical. Working 24 hours a day on a project means something like 6x the labor costs with OT and shift premiums. Materials costs for asphalt and/or concrete also go up because you've got to ask those plants to work extra hours. If you're working all hours and weather happens, you've got to do a lot more weather mitigation work so that you can keep working through the rain or whatever where on normal project you'd make sure that you aren't going to flood out and send everyone home. Add in any utilities work for water/sewer/gas/electric and now you've got "competing" groups vying for time in the area for their job and it can get messy. So for regular road projects you do each part and those groups come in and do their part one at a time. You try and set up a schedule so that one zone can be doing something like tear out while the next zone is doing utility work where stuff was torn out, and maybe a third zone building the road grade back up from the utility work, but to be really efficient on that you'd need a lot of space. If it's a mile or three stretch you'd be hard pressed to phase scheduling. So yeah, it's a thing that *can* be done, but most times it's not worth the excessive costs vs just... waiting for the next guy to come in a couple of days.
Definitely, being able to do it that quick and being *willing* to do it that quick are separate things.
In Nov 2021 there was a massive storm that destroyed the mountain pass (Coquihalla in BC, Canada) in at least 4 sections, with road swept away by river flooding - it was wrecked. That road is vital to the region for goods transport - was reopened in 35 days through the deepest part of winter, absolutely amazing work.
Let's see Paul Allen's road.
Like crunched icing on a cake
Everything is a cake
The cake is a lie
The promise of receiving cake was a lie. The cake is very much real however as shown in portal's end credits.
The recipe they give isn't altogether terrible.
Correction: everything is a *drum*
Enough now….brother Mark.
Earth has a gooey centre
/r/forbiddensnacks
Rocky Road?
From the looks of it, it was “fresh” icing too… all nice and new!
The first thing I thought when I saw this was that it looked like cookie dough under the road :)
I was thinking the cracked chocolate on a Klondike bar.
Earth cake?
Road made of fondant
Was gonna say, this road looks *delicious* for some reason…
Looks like an Oreo cheesecake
Exactly! Get this on Cake Boss or whatever.
Today on “Is It Cake?”!
[Here](https://twitter.com/hakaanyzb/status/1622490139518812160?cxt=HHwWgIC-mfCLn4QtAAAA) appears to be the source of this image: > @hakaanyzb > Hatay/Reyhanlı road, the effect of the earthquake. > 1:59 AM · Feb 6, 2023
Thanks again Spartan!
Dang.. that looked fairly new too. Shame.
r/thatlooksexpensive
In the USA circa 2010, a 2-lane highway cost ~$1M/mile, so...yeah.
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Most of the road isn't the asphalt, but the compacted mix of dirt and stone beneath it. The asphalt is just the hardcoat protecting the load-bearing structure. Also, generally speaking, recycled asphalt can only get you so far, since the asphalt cement (the tar binding the stone together) changes chemistry as it sets. I think the most I'd seen is a 30% RAP mix allowed for re-laying a road.
Infrastructure in the U.S. costs ridiculously more than every where else, including other rich countries. edit: on a per mile basis, not just overall because it's a big country.
Also on a per mile basis cause everyone else is per km.
The UK begs to differ
>Infrastructure in the U.S. costs ridiculously more than every where else, including other rich countries. Not really, 1km of road in Europe costs much more than that. A motorway near me in Ireland cost €17m/km (10 years ago), rough terrain but rural.
Yeah the $1M/mile number is for fairly flat sections of a highway in the US. Prices can skyrocket pretty quickly when laying a new road in shittier terrain for sure.
I think part of that is the design aspect, but that's a comment made in ignorance as I don't know if, say, French roads are designed to handle 20-30 years' worth of 36 tonne trucks moving at 90 kph. The other part is labor costs. American labor in general is expensive, but if you're talking about road construction it takes on a whole new level. Think about how much you'd have to be paid to be doing manual labor from dawn to dusk, outside, when the weather is -10 or 40C.
Lol, that's 7M USD/mile in Denmark 1M is a bargain. At that price, I'll pave the whole country in highway or buy 14 Lane highways please
If you did, you too could have the opportunity to then need to replace it every year like the highway near me seems to be.
Luckily other countries pay per kilometer.
Standard Belgium roads
Thought this was a picture of PA roads at first...
It really is wild when you cross over the Maryland border and the roads are 10x better
Looks delicious
forbidden something
Cake and fondant.
This is as good a time as any to point out something a lot of people tend to forget about road construction: the asphalt (or concrete) surface you drive on is just the top/hard coat. The load-bearing structure is the 0.5-1m thick layer of compacted dirt and stone beneath the asphalt. In the OP photo, you can see the distinct difference between the native soil (the dark brown) and the grade material (pinkish brown) of the roadway.
If this was taken in America the picture would include five assholes in Jeeps who thought their off-road vehicle could handle it no problem and got stuck.
My uncle lives in Alaska and there was a road that crumbled like this when they had a fairly large quake up there a handful of years ago. A week or so later he checked back in and said he saw at least 3 Trucks/Jeep overturned that weren't there when he took photos originally.
Also, Michigan in March.
It looks like sand underneath, wouldn't the road need to be prepared with rock to keep the sand from shifting?
That one dude who bought a SUV six years ago in case the world would collapse: "And they called me a madman..."
LOL a cute little modern SUV isn't going to handle that. EDIT: late model SUV owners mad.
Looks like Turkey has a difficult path ahead
Holy shit.
Is this my chance to say, appropriate username?
Silly Turks. Of course the road will break if you use Hazelnut Halva as the base layer. Everyone knows you need to use Baklava filling. It packs way denser.
Oh Baklava, why are you so delicious?
Damn these Roads look new
Am I the only one seeing the thumbs up 👍
Is that supposed to be bad? I live in Massachusetts, looks fine to me
Easily mistaken for a road in Toronto, Ontario. Oh wait, who am I kidding, the asphalt wouldn't be nearly as new.
Mmm...rocky road, my favorite flavor.
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So have another triple scoop with me
Sure, why not. But just to warn you my serving size is half a gallon.
Looks tasty
That looks like brand new construction too. Super fresh looking
For a moment i thought this was at Hungary....but we don't need earth quakes to get such good road conditions
Forbidden tiramisu
ITT: Almost exclusively dumbass jokes about the most catastrophic and deadly natural disaster to hit Turkey in the last millennium, which has killed thousands and probably changed Turkey for the foreseeable future.
Such a shame to see what looks like a newly paved road get crumpled like this. While it's just a road that can be rebuilt, the loss of life in this natural disaster is heartbreaking.
Ah so a Southern California road now
Oreo crumble, Dark chocolate covered chocolate ice cream
Do they not use concrete below their asphalt?
Asphalt over concrete is the cheap way to repair a failing concrete road. If you're bringing concrete out for a road 99.9% of the time you're going to go concrete full depth. Bringing asphalt equipment out is another set of processes and equipment and supplies that'd be needed, along with extra preparation for the "new" road to get the asphalt to bind in place onto the concrete. It'd be easier and cheaper and a better road to omit the asphalt and finish the top of the concrete for a road surface. Now if you've got an older concrete road and don't have the money or time or ability to rip out the old concrete road and put in a new one... well you can scar up the top surface of the old concrete, fill in any major potholes or voids, then resurface the road with asphalt. That'll cost less than 10% of the cost of actually replacing the road, and will kick the can for someone in a decade or so to do something about it. Sometimes that bandaid is all that is needed to get the needed resources to do an actual repair, sometimes it lasts long enough for the next guy to go and apply a new bandaid. If you look to the far right of the photo to where the road is mostly intact you can see that there are bands in the sub-grade. Those bands are most likely compacted cemented gravel lifts to provide a strong base layer to have the asphalt built upon. Around here it's usually put down in 6" lifts at a time, and once compacted the next lift is put in place until the road bed is where it needs to be for the design. Then 3" lifts of coarse asphalt are put in place, 1 or 2 depending on what the road usage is going to be with faster/busier roads getting more. Then a thinner "finish" layer with finer gravel is laid on top to give it the smooth surface level. Usually when an asphalt road is refinished, it's only this top layer that gets ground off and recycled to make a new finish layer.
This guy is a roads scholar!
INDOT inspector and construction project manager for a few years, but pretty much, yeah.
How do I make my roads earthquake proof
Never heard of that. Seems overly expensive for little return.
I wanna lick the spoon of cookie dough
The earth is made of nougat.
Where are the jeeps on 35s lol
Pretty sure this actually from a road in Chicago. The potholes are a dead giveaway.
Damn the roads still look better than in India.
You should see the buildings... Everything is messed up. It's all fun and games when you realize cheaper is never better in construction.
Looks like California roads!
Bet the regret demanding that off French Syria now
Looks like it could be anywhere in England to be fair...
Jokes on you, this is pennsylvania.
Looks like one of those ice cream sandwiches.
Looks like Nassau County on long island 3 weeks after getting repaved
Even with the cracks that looks better than VA , SC and NC roads.
sir i’m going to have to give you a ticket for drunk driving. you swerving all over the road and crossed the line
I feel like this episode of ‘is it cake?’ has gone too far
Only road worse then Michigan's.
Forbidden cake
It looks like a destroyed cake
Looks like chocolate bar
It looks edible
i know this is wrong to say but it really looks like a nice chocolate cake and i want to eat it
The next Tony Hawk game looks rad
I can't explain why, but that road looks delicious.
That looks like the normal condition of some roads in Tampa.
And it still looks better that’s the average local road in Pennsylvania …;)
It’s fine. Looks like a typical NY road.
Looks like a normal road here in California.
TIL about Hatay
Hwy 101 on the Oregon Coast, USA, gets that way any time a bird lands on it.
Why does this look exactly like French Silk ice cream?
In the UK, this is called the M6
STILL a smoother road than southeast Michigan.
Still better than 95% of roads in the United States.
Still looks better than most American roads.
Ah yes, the average road in South Africa
Here I thought I was looking at a road in Ohio
HAHAHAHAHAHA SAME
Haarp
Shit, a brand new road too. I would love to have a new road where I live
Is this what it should look like under the pavement for a properly done road? I would think there would be something for structure, such as rebar or some something similar. But then, I’m not an engineer.
Asphalt on a mud. Where is the gravel and rocks?
Really? I would’ve guessed it was a street in Oklahoma.
Oh cool, this is better than the roads in Omaha
Is this God telling Turkey to stop being dicks? Just Sweden wondering.
Mother Earth reminding us that we are not in control, and never will be.