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    Who what a lot of trash! Maybe Ohio has more people? More land? More roads?
    Definitely more interstate highways. This from Wiki;

    The New Hampshire Highway System is the public roads system of the U.S. state of New Hampshire containing approximately 17,029 miles (27,406 km) maintained by the New Hampshire Department of Transportation (NHDOT). All public roads in the state are called "highways", thus there is no technical distinction between a "road" or a "highway" in New Hampshire. A total of 224.2 miles (360.8 km) of roadway in New Hampshire are part of the Interstate Highway system.
    The Ohio Department of Transportation currently operates the seventh-largest highway system in the United States[32] and the sixth-largest interstate system measured by total lane-miles.[33] These highways support the fifth greatest traffic volume by total vehicle miles,[34] the third-greatest value of commercial freight, and contain the second-largest inventory of bridges in the nation as well.[5] ODOT maintains approximately 49,000 lane-miles of highway system statewide.[35] Included with these highways are over 15,000 bridges and culverts, 6,200 on/off ramps, 5,000 stop signs, 3,400 intersections, and 3,100 miles (5,000 km) of guardrail of which none are county roads.


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    They didn't even build the highway through here until the 80's. Ever try to build a road through mountains of solid granite I worked on a road crew for a few years and let me tell you it is slow going we hit granite ledge every 100 ft or so and had to blow it up with dynamite.

    I would also say way more people, Cincinnati probably has more people than our entire state lol.
    Also wayyy more land for sure.
    nhdot will not go into the woods which run along almost all our roads and where the majority of the trash ends up. from the edge of the woods 10-15 ft in will produce a lot of garbage and scrap metal.
    But that should mean greater amounts of scrapable material on the side of the road, and a little ways into the woods for me, along with stuff like Brasscatcher's partner was finding there are definitely treasures on the side of the road.

    Edit Talked with the town road agent this morning all the culverts are mine i would guess around 200+ lbs a piece so on my first cleanup i'm looking at 1500 lbs of shred guaranteed! Doing good is doing good for me
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