Re: Seriously; where should a bikie retire?

Tim McNamara wrote:
>
> There are regional variations of course. In Arkansas, for example,
> estimated construction costs for a new two lane rural road are $2.1
> million per mile. In the mountains, $2.25 million per mile. In urban
> areas, $2.45 million per mile. Of course, reconstructing an existing
> roadway is much much cheaper- $800,000 per lane mile (so $1.6 million
> per mile for a two lane road).

If the rural roads really cost that much, they certainly wouldn't have
them... they'd still be on dirt and/or gravel. I've no doubt that
governments suck that much money out of the economy to pay for state
and federal highways, but only because they are horrendously
inefficient.

OK, the roads I'm talking about are not as nice as a good highway, but
they are hard and fairly smooth... I think they are fine to use a road
bike on. They are better than many of the roads I frequent on Kauai.

And they simply don't cost anything like a million dollars a mile. The
county where I grew up has 750 sq miles and 23,000 people. At 2 miles
of road per square mile (1500 miles of roads) and if they cost a mere
million per mile, that comes to 1.5 billion! Guessing that a quarter of
the population is rural, that would be $260,000 per person for the
roads where they live.

My Dad has a 1/4 mile road going to his property that he built and
maintains himself. I asked him a couple of years ago what he thought
the cost to build a typical rural road would be these days, and he
estimated maybe $20,000 per mile. And logically, if they cost much more
than that they wouldn't (couldn't) exist.

.

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