Thread: Road Repair/Maintenance "Imbalance"?

I believe I have noticed a very marked difference between the amount of work being done on Suburban Roads, Freeways etc, relative to what is being done on Country "B" & "C" roads etc.
Travelling up the Hume recently I saw plenty of work being done, line markings etc, surface repair, on perfectly straight stretches of road where the surface, edging, road markings etc seemed to be perfectly fine.
On other main roads there also seems to be an ever increasing number of those wire road "barriers" being put up, at what must be huge expense, in the middle & sides of roads.
In my local suburb, I see road resurfacing / all sorts of works on roads that were/are perfectly OK.
All perfectly fine of course,.....AND YET, when we get away into the Country, into the Mallee & similar areas, we see some awful roads, crumbling edges, large pot holes, corrugated, uneven surfaces etc etc, that obviously have not had any attention for many years, despite the fact that grain trucks/agricultural machinery etc are many times bigger & heavier than when these roads were built.
Pickles.

I live on a dead end road on the town boundary, past me would be about a dozen house, motor bike endurance track and a go cart track.
Apart from when they run events, about 6 times a year between the 2 clubs there is only light traffic.
About 6 years ago they start resurfacing the bitumen road that was in near perfect condition. I went to the local council offices to find out why. The reason was the the road surface had deprecated to zero value, so to maintain the books the road had to be resurfaced. I told them there was plently of other roads that needed the money spent, but that's not how it works unless you are on the council.
cheers
blaze