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[–] thejoker954@lemmy.world 75 points 4 days ago (16 children)

This says less about cars and more about shoddy work and government grift.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 7 points 4 days ago (6 children)

Or sinkholes are common in the area

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 24 points 4 days ago (5 children)

Then they shouldn't be using materials that succumb to potholes this quickly.

We have potholes in Ohio. Mostly caused by salt on the roads, and lack of maintence over the years.

This road opened on June 5th. Should be no salt. And there hasn't been years of deterioration.

If this pavement material is this weak, then it has no right being used here.

[–] tetrislife@leminal.space 3 points 3 days ago

If they didn't use sub-standard materials, there wouldn't be big repair contracts, would there? Guess who will land them.

This is par for the course in India. They siphon off taxes this way, and on environmentally-inadvisable things no less. But that is how it is structured, weak-to-non-existent urban local bodies, and tax collection and disbursement centralized like it was in the times of the colonizer. That big pot of money is intensively fought over.

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