This game is about balancing between sustainability and progress, right? In real life, a HUGE aspect of road construction/refurbishment is the use of recycled road material. Asphalt and concrete are actually among the MOST recycled materials in the world. Typically when doing large road building or road refurbishment the company supplying the concrete and/or asphalt to the job site will set up a temporary mixing plant nearby, with an ancillary recycler in the same complex.
For new jobs, the plant will often take old asphalt/concrete for a small charge from other projects around the city, creating a dump spot where the material will be recycled (I worked for a state DOT, we would usually save any/all old concrete and asphalt in our yard until one of these plants opened and then we'd take it all there. It's cheaper than paying to dump it in a landfill)
For refurbishment jobs, the plant will still take other asphalts/concretes, but their primary source is the roadway itself. As the crews rip up the old roadway, they'll take it to the reclamation plant.
The plant grinds up the concrete and asphalt into fine and course aggregates, and uses it to make new concrete/asphalt on the spot.
There should be a way to grind up old roads in this game. Stone road/ramps and asphalt-concrete roads, into crushed rock, so it can be repurposed into new projects.
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