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.
> 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.
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?