A recent article in the Wall Street Journal describes how paved roads are being torn up across rural America because asphalt is just too expensive for them to replace.
According to the article, 38 of 83 counties in Michigan have converted some asphalt roads to gravel. South Dakota turned at least 100 miles of asphalt to gravel. Counties in Alabama and Pennsylvania have been downgrading asphalt roads to chip-and-seal road and counties in Ohio are simply letting roads erode to gravel.
John Habermann of Purdue University, who recently organized a seminar about the resurgence of gravel roads called "Back to the Stone Age," points out that gravel roads are not free as they do need to be graded and smoothed.
Go to July 17 The Wall Street Journal to read more.
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