Why are their hills on roads?

dustcart44

I rather suspect you're talking about "Humps". They are there to TRY and get drivers to reduce their speed.

Their are hills on roads because it would be too expensive to dig out large trenches for roads to go through just to keep them flat. The Earth is full of hills and we just go along for the ride

pinksteel10

costs too much to level them off.

Charlie

The world is not flat, sorry couldn't resist....Costs about $1 million a mile to pave a road. Could be as much as $100 million to cut through a hill.

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hahaha you either mean roads on hills - because they follow the landscape or you mean the speed bumps - to slow vehicles down

lol

Michael H

whos hills ? "their" is too general, we need to know who's hills you are talking about before we can explain why they have put them on the road.

YVETTE

there are no hills on roads, there might be roads on hills though

Pete T

You have it backward , you should ask why are there roads on hills? The answer is because the hill was already there and an easier way of getting from point A to point B , thus a road way built.

Roxas

cuz that's the way the land under the road is shaped!

William Brealey

It is much easier to build on the hill than tobuild a road around it, or level the ground. What is wrong with roads on hills, car journey's would be much more boring without them.

UCANTCME

Because not all surfaces are flat..........

chevypride0310

um maybe because thats how the land is, its too much to level it out or to fill in an area between 2 hills, whats your next question "why are there curves in roads?" lol

Friendly Stranger..

It is too costly to level all surfaces. The counties in certain states have a budget that they have to meet. It would cost too much and take more money away from where it is needed if the county and state officials leveled all roads. Its just a common practice to put money where it is needed the most. So you have some parts that are leveled and some that are not.

Jack P

To disrupt driver ennui

Fred F

Because the world is not a flat smooth surface.
Sheesh!!

midwakh

Hills on roads are either due to landscape or on longer drives they are sometimes put intentionally to keep the drivers attention on the road.

You will often find disturbances in roads designed specifically by engineers to keep the driver awake, you rarely find long stretches of road that are just straight (unless they are poorly engineered).

manny

Speed bump

Rapid Fire

Because we don't have enough NUKES to flatten all of them.

Autonova

Tree roots pushing up from below the tarmac?

Wad of dumb

Lack of thought. They should have bulldozed through them all, it would have meant millions less gallons of gas burned each day around the country.

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