In the UK, well England more than the rest of the UK, we have a system for reducing disruption on the roads during maintenance. We just let it go decades without any resurfacing.
"We used to drive on the left, we now drive on what's left"
I'm pretty sure most of the damage are from construction company lorries. I wonder why the gov doesn't just tax them for their usage/destruction of public roads, and fund repairs with that?
Because the lorry owners (construction and transportation co.) would bitch and fight tooth and nail against that, rise the transport costs and... everyone would claim the roads aren't repaired anyway.
Source: living in a country what did exactly that. Oh, they bitched hard.