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Honestly this is the problem with all road infrastructure. It'll be interesting to see how countries like China manage it. China currently has the largest paved-road system in the world, and maintaining that will not come cheap.
That they aren't being properly maintained/funded? It looks like a bunch of the bridges that are having issues are mostly due to age.
China's road infrastructure is all much newer than most other developed nations. And since it was built later I imagine the materials and civil engineering undergirding them is better.
However, the bill always comes due eventually for reinforced concrete. It's currently coming due in most of the west now from all the freeway building that happened in the 50s.
China still has a long time til they're in the same place, and it will be interesting to see if they learned the lessons of not deferring maintenance.
It’s true what you said, being newer than most other developed nations.
However at the back of my mind, whenever it says “made in china”, i don’t expect much quality or built to last.
I get that. There was a time when "made in Japan" meant low quality also. Times are a changin'.
Japan buying up all of USA debt and land was a scary Boogeyman.
I think I remember Saudi Arabia doing it too.
Then China.
I wonder if the American empire will last long enough for another country to do it.
the whole made in ... thing was originally implemented to mark the inferior products / cheap copys of british products that where made in germany