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Do you think roads and highway engineers like doing this? Do you know how demoralising it is to road workers knowing that it’s not the right answer to the problem?
Why are they treating roads that don't need treating then? And leaving, or badly patching, the ones that do? My ****ing heart bleeds for them it really does.
Comically in Norwich on the run up to where i work, they did it without informing anyone that the works were taking place, and they did it around the parked cars, so if you rode a bike, you didn't just have the terrible surface to contend with, but also the 1/2 inch step up and down with each void left where a car had been, along with large piles of the chips as they couldn't sweep them away
I had so many punctures (before road tubeless was a thing) on this, that i ended up running solid Tannus tyres, bloody horrible stuff
They treat them for multiple reasons.
One being so they don’t get in to bad a condition an other being it may look good but the aggregate has become polished and no longer provides skid resistance.