From: AlleyCat <katt@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,can.politics,alt.politics.trump,alt.politics.liberalism,alt.politics.democrats,alt.politics.usa.republican
Subject: Re: "4th Largest Economy In The World" Has Worst Roads In The USA.
Date: Sun, 4 May 2025 20:01:47 -0500
Organization: AlleyCat Computing, Inc.
On Sun, 4 May 2025 07:01:34 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom says...
> Several states consistently rank low for road quality in the US. New
> Mexico, South Carolina, and Mississippi frequently appear on lists
There's a difference in roads being poorly built and maintained and how subsurfaces affect well-built roads. I was the CAD
operator at two Engineering firms in Mississippi, one having a soils lab.
The substrates of the lands many of the roads go through, were of clay and clayey soils.
Where there was trouble keeping the roads in shape, the state tasked us with taking bore samples and analyzing them. The asphalt
was always good, but below the "surface and base course", which was comprised of differing "sections" (binder course, roadstone,
sub base, capping layer, etc.) lay the "natural formation", which was mostly clay the closer you got to the Mississippi River.
During the changing seasons, the clays would swell and shrink, making the roads look like this:
https://i.imgur.com/Y1WiDRv.jpg
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