Extended life road system and method

A roadway system providing periodic long term normal traffic flow partial lane shifts along an entire length of a roadway surface for extending the life of a roadway, the system comprising:

• a roadway surface comprising a hard vehicle bearing surface having a number of travel lanes marked by lane divider lines thereon, each of the travel lanes having a pair of wear strips formed in the roadway surface by receiving wear from tires of vehicles traveling over the roadway surface repeatedly following the same path of travel in each of the travel lanes, the pair of wear strips comprising a spaced parallel pair of roadway sections along the length of the roadway surface in each of the travel lanes, each of the wear strips having a width not greater than a quarter of the width of a travel lane, and a lateral extension of the roadway surface by at least the width of a wear strip along the entire length of the roadway surface creating an extra side surface along the length of the roadway, so that an extended width roadway is formed for laterally shifting the location of the travel lanes on the roadway by a wear strip width, the extended width roadway having a set of first designated travel lanes marked by first lane divider lines on the extended width roadway in a first laterally positioned location on the roadway surface along the entire length of the roadway surface for long term normal traffic flow over a period of time with a first pair of wear strips formed in the roadway surface in each of the travel lanes, and the set of designated travel lanes having a shifted position laterally on the extended width roadway to a second location on the roadway surface spaced apart from the first position on the roadway surface by a width of a wear strip along the entire length of the roadway surface after a scheduled period of time to create an alternate new set of second designated travel lanes with the first lane divider lines removed and replaced by second lane divider lines spaced apart from the first lane divider lines on the extended width roadway for long term normal traffic flow over a period of time replacing the first designated travel lanes with a second pair of wear strips formed on the roadway surface by receiving wear from the tires of vehicles in each of the travel lanes in the shifted position, the second pair of wear strips being located on relatively unworn surfaces of the roadway surface spaced apart from the first pair of wear strips to distribute wear from vehicles over an entire roadway surface over time to extend a usable life of the roadway surface.