Dirt roads may evoke the bucolic simplicity of another century, but financially strained townships point out that dirt roads cost twice as much as maintaining paved roads.

• Adirt roads cost twice as much as maintaining paved roads  
• Bdirt roads cost twice as much to maintain as paved roads do  
• Cmaintaining dirt roads costs twice as much as paved roads do  
• Dmaintaining dirt roads costs twice as much as it does for paved roads  
• Eto maintain dirt roads costs twice as much as for paved roads