How sad is our engineering managed road system that pot holes have become so abundant that road safety has evolved into a joke competition.
They say follow the money trial, if thats true then lasts look at the two money trails:
>whats not funded
1- Pot hole repairs
1.5- engineers can not design or build roads that still work when it rains, sunny, dark, light or when cars, trucks, busses, cycles and humans use, them surely with all the inventions over the last 2000 years a road could be built that lasts, even a guarantee that lasts longer than a tv.
2- road side grasses mowed before being higher than the cars. Apparently we understand that grasses grow so surely we can set a scheduled mowing plan, ask jims.
3- separated cycle paths, we are building new suburbs and still not separating vulnarable road users,
4- standardised performance based graduated education for drivers, it 2024 and we still have engineering managing a flawed system that is based on 1950s theory
5- antiquated traffic light managment system that was designed in the 1930s that could be managed by ai tomorrow, allowing real time controlled traffic movement, imagine NOT sitting at a red light waiting for no one comming from the other road whilst your light stays red or a serious traffic flow stops for one car.
(Elon Musk Tesla Automotive Inc or Bill Gates please help, imaging the reduction in batteries and fossel fuels)
>What’s being funded
1- engineers and lots of them.
2- wire rope barriers
3- road side signs
4- tv ads
5 - politions saying “hey we are fixing pot holes”
6- humans painting circles around pot holes