Rural Counties reverting to gravel roads

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142 ... stpop_read

Interesting article about counties returning paved roads to gravel. Back to the stone age?

I think Park County has stated they will consider doing this in the future on some roads.

"Paved roads, historical emblems of American achievement, are being torn up across rural America and replaced with gravel or other rough surfaces as counties struggle with tight budgets and dwindling state and federal revenue. State money for local roads was cut in many places amid budget shortfalls."

We've lived on dirt road ever since we've lived up here. I hope it stays that way.

I have to agree with Wayne.
The road to my house is paved right up until just before my house.
People fly on the pavement but slow to a crawl on the dirt.

My co-workers in Denver are amazed that (a) I live on a gravel road and (b) by road gets snowplowed every time it snows and theirs in the city doesn't.

I think the article was talking more about common county feeder roads with moderate traffic, not short residential side streets. Think 43, 47, 68, Rosalie rd., frontage roads, etc.

An interesting exception is Guanella pass, from dirt to paved. I know a lot of people are against paving that but I like it as a route to I70 from Bailey, instead of backtracking to Evergreen.

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you know i see it as a good thing. better than not properly grading it and then putting asphalt over it.

since we live in a backwoods county and kintz can't properly teach r&b maybe by trial and error r&b can figure out how to properly crown a road so that it doesn't need continual maintenance. it is sickening to watch our tax dollars go down the drain when we don't even have enough of them while r&b continues to mangle the roads.

How anyone can glean something positive in this is beyond me. America became an economic super power because of our rail and road systems and now China is set to dominate the world mainly because of their recent massive infrastructure investments.....Right now they can almost get product to us faster than we can get it to ourselves..


Lets shift half the defense budget to infrastructure investment and see what happens?

Vice Lord wrote: Lets shift half the defense budget to infrastructure investment and see what happens?

That's simple! BIGGER GOVERNMENT.

VL, I have to agree with you. Infrastructure spending is good spending. So is education done right. Defense cuts that make sense are also possible, but that's another topic.