A recent survey of state highway budgets found that the cost of keeping roads (mostly) clear this past winter was north of $1.1 billion.
Published by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, the survey counted only money that was spent on keeping highways clear of snow and ice. The $1.1 billion covered the cost of chemicals, salt, plows, rental fees for equipment, overtime pay for employees and pay for contractors that were needed to keep the roads clear.
It does not include any other maintenance costs past or future. This means that many states will be operating with severely reduced budgets when it comes time to fill potholes and make other highway repairs.
To do the job, states used 24,000 snow plows crewed by workers who put 8 million hours in plowing the roads and going through 6 million tons of salt.
While even some Southern states spent more than expected because of ice storms, it was the Northeast that was hit the hardest. Massachusetts spent the most money of all, contending with 31 winter storms that resulted in 110 inches of snowfall costing a whopping $153.7 million.
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CA sould be selling all the salt they get from ocean that they turn into drinking water. For roadsalt. And buying tanker loads of water from those same states it sales salt too.
That is not bad at all “desalination”
Time to build solar roadways.
LOL
or tie ropes to all the wind turbines and let them pull the trucks along