State highways administrator Pericles Manthos says it's not just because they're two different materials, but because the materials and methods of applying them have improved. That section of H-1 was poured quite a while ago, when they were still pouring concrete in sections and leveling them with flat wooden screeds. Newer sections, like the current widening in Aiea, uses more sophisticated techniques, slip-forms that are ground down to make them more level. Asphalt is also more porous and rain falling upon it tends to percolate away. Not so with concrete, which is why concrete road sections generally have traction grooves combed in with diamond-bladed saws.
Concrete is springier as well.
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