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by allfta » Sun Aug 11, 2013 10:12 pm
Dirt roads may evoke the bucolic simplicity of another century, but financially strained townships point out that to maintain dirt roads costs twice the cost to maintain pave roads.

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by vinay1983 » Wed Aug 28, 2013 8:51 am
Dirt roads may evoke the bucolic simplicity of another century, but financially strained townships point out that to maintain dirt roads it costs twice as much as to maintain paved roads.

This is one alternative.

Then,

Dirt roads may evoke the bucolic simplicity of another century, but financially strained townships point out that it costs twice as much as to maintain paved roads.
You can, for example never foretell what any one man will do, but you can say with precision what an average number will be up to!

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