Grading and gravel replacement restore the road surface but cannot always correct moisture-sensitive subgrades, rising axle loads or recurring structural weakness beneath it.
Manitoba's rural roads connect farms, mines and communities to a $9.04-billion agri-food export economy. Treating them as productive infrastructure changes how their value should be measured.
Alberta does not need to decide whether one technology belongs across its rural-road network. It needs to decide whether a different road system can produce a better result on the right road, under controlled local conditions.
A rural road does not experience traffic in the abstract. It experiences each axle through the condition of the road at that moment.
Climateroad Inc.
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