What's the old saying?

"We used to drive on the left, we now drive on what's left"

Great technique. Thankfully every vehicle model seems to increase in size, durability, and suspension capability to mitigate any negative side effects.

And the trend of increasing car sizes means increasing mass means increasing damage to roads :/

This made me laugh, given my horrendous bike journey today on roads filled with holes in London.

I'm pretty sure most of the damage are from construction company lorries. I wonder why the gov doesn't just tax them for their usage/destruction of public roads, and fund repairs with that?

You should see how hard every trucker and good ol' boy here in the USA whines and moans about weight limits and blames BIG GUMMINT for ruining their day. The fact that they are doing exponentially more damage to the pavement, wearing it out much faster doesn't occur to them.

So, you are saying the very same lorries transporting the raw material for road resurfacing someplace else? That should one profitable business!

> why the gov doesn't just tax them for their usage/destruction of public roads

Because the lorry owners (construction and transportation co.) would bitch and fight tooth and nail against that, rise the transport costs and... everyone would claim the roads aren't repaired anyway.

Source: living in a country what did exactly that. Oh, they bitched hard.

And it’s cheaper as well!