Homeowners know how hard it is to maintain an asphalt driveway. Cracks, dips, rocks/boulders lift in the spring time causing a bump with hair line cracks around it, chipping, etc.
Homeowners have the same difficult decisions to make just like the NH DOT does. When do you fill the cracks, when do you seal it, how do I get the oil stains off...and so on.
What Town does the DOT appease first, can they just add a shim coat, how much money is left in the budget.
It's not easy trying to have a 10 year plan and then have mother nature change them. Floods, a very cold winter, a lot of snow, more than usual runoff from the Mountain streams...all these add up to having something not getting done that the original plan called for.
Maybe if we go back to dirt roads and just scrape them once in a while will do the trick.
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