Heat is having a drastic impact on roads around the country, but Nevada's pavements are holding their own according to a report by Fox 5 in Las Vegas.
Southern Nevada’s roads are designed to withstand the excessive heat. Most of the success is due to dryer winters and a lot of prep work from the Nevada Department of Transportation.
“We are very accustomed to the extreme summertime heat and we don’t have the other direction of extreme winter or cold,” said Justin Hopkins with NDOT. “A lot of the places, you see damage in the summertime, or in the wintertime the potholing or buckling, they get a lot of moisture in the winter.”
NDOT says they prevent roads from buckling or suffering any damage here in their design before building roads or highways, using high-heat materials.
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Source: Fox 5 Las Vegas
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