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Why some towns are un-paving their roads

Ripping up pot-hole filled asphalt and replacing it with gravel makes more financial sense.

Some towns in the U.S. don’t have the cash to fix their pot-hole laden paved roads. So instead, they’re ripping them up and replacing them with gravel. Aarian Marshall is a staff writer at Wired and wrote about the benefits and downsides. Marketplace’s Kai Ryssdal talked to her about the practice.

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