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You don't fix a road with a dude and a shovel. The horror you're seeing there is exactly what happens to a road when you just keep shoveling gravel and cold mix when you need to do at least a mill and overlay, but probably a full-depth repair.
And when you start doing stuff like that now you've got to start planning around the underground utilities. Beneath the road you may have water, sewer, gas, electricity, telecoms and more. You've got manholes, handholes, storm sewer. And on top of that, half the owners on either side of the road don't know where their property line is and they've installed irrigation systems in the ROW without a permit and the contractors hit water lines they don't know about every hundred feet, stopping work and costing more money.
And all of this has to be coordinated with the various utility providers to try and make sure yout plans and theirs align. You don't want to spend millions fixing a road only to have the gas company come in a week later cutting a bunch of trenches and holes they just fill back with a patch, causing the road to fall apart in 2 years instead of 20.
Hey man your not think pragmatically, the roads don't get repaired every 2 years and to think you can just do that isn't an argument. People have proved good enough is sometimes the right way. All those regulations you just rattled off are a moot point because that's how we got here. But man with shovel covers all that. Somethings aren't that complicated and just because you say so doesn't mean it's reality.