Nope. Even in Indiana and Michigan where we have horrible snows and freezing conditions, they make it as thing as possible to conserve money. You would think after 50-60 years of perfecting asphalt, they'd realize if they put it down thicker the first time, it wouldn't degrade and potholes would not be a constant issue. Budgetary continuity. Keep spending something every year or their budgets will go down. same thing happens with us in the military, If we have excess at the end of the FY they take our budgeting down a notch. So they get frantic and start buying useless shit or giving people all kinds of new gear, etc. The genius of an ever growing, increasingly less efficient and disconnected government. If you were in the military you would think this ten fold. I was DOD for a while, then DOD contractor.