• Conowelle
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    1 year ago

    … and didn’t have hundreds of 4 ton vehicles driving on them every day.

    • WiseThat
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      1 year ago

      Exactly. The damage done to a road scales with the 4th power of weight, meaning that doubling the weight causes 16x the damage.

      Meaning that compared to a person walking, or even a horse-drawn cart a truck will do literally millions of times the damage.