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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MerakSpielman" data-source="post: 491621" data-attributes="member: 7464">The roads built today are very poor compared to the Roman roads. They built things to last - some of their roads are still in use today. We build roads that are as cheap as possible and wear out rapidly. Having our roads be cheap and impermenant was a design choice. It was deemed to be more valuable to society to keep a clump of people constantly employed repairing roads than to spend a lot of money up front on a road that never wears out.Also, a lot of our roads wash out because we are silly enough to build them by cutting into a relatively loose earth slope. When it rains or the ground shakes a bit, the slope simply reverts to its normal angle, burying the road. Normally vegetation holds the slope together a bit better, but of course the road removes enough of that to make a difference.</blockquote>