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Why are Oklahoma's roads so crappy?
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<blockquote data-quote="securitysix" data-source="post: 2588362" data-attributes="member: 32714"><p>I have always been told that part ("most", according to some) of the reason Oklahoma roads, and particularly our bridges, are terrible is how we treat them in the winter. It's not that we put down salt and sand, which plenty of other states do, too. It's that after the reason for putting down the salt and sand is gone, i.e. after the snow and ice melts away, we don't do anything about it, so when it rains, it washes the salt and sand down into and around the road surface and that facilitates and accelerates the oxidation of the steel in the bridges and concrete roads. Also, the extra friction from the salt and sand on the surface of the roads helps wear them down from above. It seems to make sense, so I've never really questioned it.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>According to <a href="http://www.okladot.state.ok.us/public-info/civic/pdfs/transfacts050601.pdf" target="_blank">this PDF</a>, ODOT is responsible for 30,000 lane miles of road. I'm having trouble finding a number for any of the surrounding states, but that'll get folks going, I suppose.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="securitysix, post: 2588362, member: 32714"] I have always been told that part ("most", according to some) of the reason Oklahoma roads, and particularly our bridges, are terrible is how we treat them in the winter. It's not that we put down salt and sand, which plenty of other states do, too. It's that after the reason for putting down the salt and sand is gone, i.e. after the snow and ice melts away, we don't do anything about it, so when it rains, it washes the salt and sand down into and around the road surface and that facilitates and accelerates the oxidation of the steel in the bridges and concrete roads. Also, the extra friction from the salt and sand on the surface of the roads helps wear them down from above. It seems to make sense, so I've never really questioned it. According to [url=http://www.okladot.state.ok.us/public-info/civic/pdfs/transfacts050601.pdf]this PDF[/url], ODOT is responsible for 30,000 lane miles of road. I'm having trouble finding a number for any of the surrounding states, but that'll get folks going, I suppose. [/QUOTE]
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