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vel0city11/20/20244 repliesview on HN

You're probably also going to have far fewer massive vehicles on those rural roads. More things like pickups yes, but probably considerably fewer semi-teicks and busses and fire trucks and cement mixers what not. Those big trucks passing through are going to stick to interstates far more often when going through rural areas.


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FuriouslyAdrift11/20/2024

City buses are what really shred urban roads (and winter plows)

https://www.kgw.com/article/news/verify/yes-bus-more-road-da...

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hparadiz11/20/2024

On average yea but when a rural road is neglected it's far far worse than any urban road. I'm looking at you Pennsylvania.

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AngryData11/20/2024

In my rural area there are tons of gravel pits so the roads take a lot of abuse. However every gravel pit ive seen here open up on a new road has been forced to spend the money on upgrading that road to handle those gravel trucks.

Loughla11/20/2024

We have large farm machinery though.

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