As usual, the patch jobs and roads around Halifax look like they were built by some walmart type contractor in space, and then dropped from orbit to become what they are now. Space garbage.
Does anyone in Nova Scotia really know how to build a road? Ever heard of concrete HRM? It works better than assfault.
–cptstubing
This article appears in Nov 19-25, 2009.
The only concrete I can imagine is what resides between the ears of HRM’s horrific city council – that would be too simple to use concrete – they’d have to strike up committees, committees to study the committes (all behind closed doors, natch)at the taxpayers’ expense. Their collective brainpool wouldn’t light a 20 watt bulb. One look at downtown’s patched up roads and empty storefronts are proof of that.
actually, tempered steel i beams are a lot better and do not go to pieces as quickly.the only assfault that should be used is for the road surface, and yes, they do use concrete,too much as a matter of fact. that’s why they have to be repaired more often.
Anyone ever remember what Desmond ave and Scot st (both were concrete streets up until recently) looked like after winter? Enough said.
I don’t see them using any concrete, its all black asphalt, and it doesn’t make it one week before coming apart.
Then what are the benefits of concrete?
concrete is only useful in an environment where there is no frost to heave the roads around, our winters are hell on roads.
Salt destroys concrete…..and we love our salt. With the moisture and freeze-thaw cycles we have…..salt is our Savior!! Without salt….black-ice would rule…..repair shops would be needed at every corner…..a funeral home needed across from every repair shop……and the population would dwindle due to the high death toll from accidents.
Concrete is actually better at resisting frost heave…..as it can be reinforced…..while asphalt cannot….. in both cases…the trick lies in the gravel bed anyway……the thicker the better!
But the real reason for asphalt…..is that concrete costs 3 to 4 times more. How many driveways do you see made with concrete as compared to asphalt? We don’t want to pay for concrete, we don’t want those taxes going higher……we are cheap!!……we have cheap roadways!!!
You are right….if walmart sold asphalt roads….that’s where we’d be getting them!
until they showed up at value villiage or xs cargo…
Smee has it right. However laying concrete is something that the city also screws up (drive down Monastery Lane). The proper way to do roads would be to have an underlay (gravel/sand bed) that would not retain water, any water under the road would flow away.
It is far cheaper to grind an inch of pavement and lay another inch of “good stuff” than to deal with the problem, in this case water retained under the road. In a sense, HRM is like a house flipper (buy a shitty house, put new floors, new paint, modern kitchen, etc, but no thought on the structure and the question of “can the joists handle the extra load of this jacuzzi?”).