You aren't up to date on the cost of putting blacktop and repairing it when it is placed on our substrate and you drive trucks on it. Caye Caulkers roads cost very little to maintain until the trucks came.
You are right, here is an example of the cost to "REPAIR" streets in Corozal, which has a very stable foundation "The 7 streets which will be fixed amounts to 2.7 miles of road, and will cost approximately eight hundred thousand dollars." and that is for only repairing
2.7 miles of black top. Some people think it is easy to build roads here, and that money to build them grows on trees. Also "black top" is petroleum based and the run-off could damage the reef....