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Originally Posted by Ironhorse
In addition to that, the massive increase in the use of salt on the roads by the City over the past 10 years or so is certainly contributing to the problem. I've been driving on Calgary roads since the mid 80's and they are definitely getting worse in comparison, regardless of the frost heaves.
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I’m not really sure that has a lot to do with it. Edmonton uses less and has significantly worse roads (they have to repair 20-30x more than Calgary) while salt is used significantly more in Southern Ontario and potholes are less of an issue there than here.
Double the population, worse freeze/thaw cycles, and everybody bitching about taxes only to turn around and bitch that the things taxes pay for aren’t keeping up all probably contribute more than the salt mix.