Why is it so difficult to make a smooth road?
Even the bypass when it opens you can almost guarantee there will be bumps and unaccountable dips in the surface.
It certainly will not be smooth from one end to the other.
We can be grateful that many of the older roads in the shire were built by earlier councils.
They appear to be holding up reasonably well considering when they were built and the traffic flow they have experienced.
They may not be the smoothest or quietest roads you will drive over, but many of them are not riddled with potholes or very strange repair jobs.
In answer to the first question it might have something to do with the way roads are currently constructed.
The older construction methods, from my memory, had a substantial foundation of varying sizes of very hard stones.
As opposed to what currently appears to be a reliance on quarry dust and geo fabric.
It might be worthwhile to revisit road construction methods and give our new generation of civil engineers a wide berth.
Let them play in their sand boxes and watch their fancy designs disappear in a shower of rain.
Leon Pethick,
Gympie.
