$204,000 to rebuild 900 feet of Center Ave in Burgettstown, PA because of coal trucks running 24-7 365 on a street that still has the orange brick pavers under the cracking asphalt...
I can believe $500,000 per mile easily.
The biggest fight I have around here is actually me with the state and twp, because everywhere I need to go, there is a weight limit. If the weight limit is on the road, I have to place bonding on the road. If the weight limit is on a bridge, I can't touch it. The biggest part of that problem is that my township is split in half by a historical creek with historical covered bridges and pig iron pony hip truss bridges that are 10 1/2 - 12 feet wide. Some of the bridges have 3 ton limits, one is 20 tons. the 20 ton bridge is 14 feet wide, but, with guard railing, is down to 13 foot usable. 6 row corn planters are not welcome on the roads. Implements of husbandry are allowed 14 feet wide, either being towed on a trailer, or towed, or pulled behind a tractor. The law is pretty open on that. However, the roads are not wide enough or strong enough to get me from one side of the township to the other. Nothing is flat, no roads are straight, and none are wide. I actually saw one of the local tractor pull guys posted a video of running his Oliver on roads around here, pulling a load of ear corn... It pictures my situation perfectly.
So what can I do? I have been using a method I derived from watching the Dukes Of Hazzard as a kid. It's like the "Hazzard Net" they used to track someone. I have many farmers and land owners that I ask permission to cross through their farms to take an overland route avoiding the roads. It works well, but, it's a lot to go through, just to make the same money that my grandfather and father did with smaller equipment and less acres...
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