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Has anyone else noticed the way in which our country roads, especially their edges, seem to have an accelerating failure rate in recent years, becoming ever narrower? My theory is that there is now an unprecedented army of small heavy delivery vans with high pressure tyres (usually well over 40psi) and wider tracks than older models, destroying the tarmac with their nearside wheels as they pass each other. Worse if they use cheap tyres with hard rubber. Not yet as bad as sub-saharan Africa where ever larger multiwheel drive trucks have rendered many of the provincial roads, well maintained in the colonial times of 100yrs ago, but now impassable for ordinary cars when it rains. Already one of the two roads to my tiny village is so bad that many villagers won't use it, even when it is (rarely) dry (drainage has totally failed).
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Rural road destruction new
Rural road destruction new