Readers Digest had a good article on this about five years back. I tend to agree with the article which pointed out that there are wonderful road makers in the US but the government will not use them. Why, you ask? Well, when you have a bidding system, the job goes to the lowest bidder... the lowest bidder will almost always use the cheapest (and poorest) materials available, and often times will cut corners. The US government wastes tons of $$$ in this manner... they have to repair or re-do a lot of shoddy, lowest bidders jobs. Later, Clayton
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2000 17:33:09 -0600 From: "David E. Ingold" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Wheels (Was: (no subject)) I heard that the builders in Germany, and other European countries too have to guarantee the road for 20 years or something. It's not so much the snow and ice that kills the road, but constant freezing and thawing that happens each day or so. Plus the plows themselves can be pretty hard on the roads. My village use a construction loader to plow our street. It was pretty cool because this big thing could turn tighter than a regular plow because it is articulated in the center. But those big tires put some indentations in the road. Dave. '90 GLi Tired of Midwest Winters. _____________ List Sponsor: http://www.netsville.com To remove yourself from this list, send mail to [email protected] with 'unsubscribe a2_16v' in the body of your message See us on the web at http://www.a2-16v.com Visit the 16V Homepage at http://www.gti16v.org
