State of our roads.

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The concrete main highways of Auckland are still there under the new roads, they didn't rip them up...or at least some years ago when they were making them wider etc. They were well made and hardly needed any repairs after many decades of use.

I also vaguely remember noticing the rhythmic 'clop, clop' as we travelled on concrete roads in the Napier area about 50 years back. My late father was a roading contractor and I remember him explaining what they were. Don't know if they're still there, possibly now sealed over, but I imagine they may have been part of the 1930's quake rebuild legacy but ended up as a failed experiment perhaps.