On Monday, 20 January 2020 20:20:37 UTC, Brian Gaff (Sofa 2) wrote:
Who would build a road without proper edges. Seems to me the fault is built
in and its only stupid people who build such roads in the first place.
Brian

Many roads were built to standards appropriate to small, horsedrawn wagons - at the largest - and single-track at that. They now have to cope with gigantic agricultural machinery, articulated and rigid lorries, SUVs the size of houses, and others which were not even imagined at the time. Even where they are slightly wider, they might have to cope with traffic in both directions - each going slightly further to the left than they really should.

The folly could be in allowing these vehicles on roads that were not built to take them and not upgraded. Or in not upgrading them.