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justinator on April 18, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Many railway lines in Britain that were closed in ...

Sounds like Iowa's road infrastructure, too. A lot of the roads are just left to turn into gravel,

http://www.csgmidwest.org/policyresearch/0112ruralroads.aspx

Looks like it's 40x cheaper.

Gravel Grinding is pretty popular to do these days - here's a map of all the gravel roads in Iowa,

http://iowagravelroads.com/

Another for Colorado:

http://coloradogravelroads.com/

Stark differences!

JoeAltmaier on April 18, 2016 [–]

Iowa's roads were built all gravel (100 years ago). Then some rebuilt as pavement. I've never seen any just left to turn back - they don't do that without help.

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