Road Infrastructure Challenges

The cluster focuses on debates about the difficulties of building, maintaining, and designing roads, particularly their role as entrenched infrastructure for cars versus alternatives or improvements.

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Sample Comments

bagels Oct 13, 2024 View on HN

Road building and maintenance avoided?

isodev Jul 9, 2025 View on HN

No, but have you seen the roads in other places? Roads are hard :)

nailer Jul 9, 2025 View on HN

That's correct, much like the roads not being paved was a hassle for cars.

fnord77 May 8, 2024 View on HN

Why can't we just build roads that last?

GravityisaHoax May 19, 2022 View on HN

No wonder their roads are so bad.

NotSammyHagar Feb 16, 2017 View on HN

so this article is not about the roads? /s

Hamuko Jan 11, 2021 View on HN

I'm more worried about the roads that can't be changed.

mcntsh Dec 28, 2025 View on HN

you only think that because a bunch of roads were constructed for cars

andy-x Feb 17, 2017 View on HN

Good roads are incentive to drive, let's destroy all roads then.

photonbeam May 10, 2024 View on HN

Smooth roads really help with this, but no one seems to care