Tarmac is soft for a reason. It provides suspension and noise suppression.
A lot of old streets are actually made this way, It’s a good foundation and way cheaper than ripping it all up and filling it back with more stones.
Becouse laying apshalt straight over old, Brick road never worked. Ever. In not a single country. It just doesnt work for longer term with heavier cars nowadays
That could be anywhere in central Edinburgh.
Spray paint a cock on it and it’ll be gone by next Friday
Clearly the Romans did it better 😀
Our roads back then were great for the most part, they just weren’t great with traction when driving in the wet
I thought this was an anaemic piece of beef
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Funny that the Victorian road has lasted the test of time and the tarmac only a few months.
Starting to think there must be a better material for roads than tarmac.
Those cobbles wouldn’t be there after a week of HGVs driving over tbem
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Maybe they should take it back to the cobbles.
Tarmac is soft for a reason. It provides suspension and noise suppression.
A lot of old streets are actually made this way, It’s a good foundation and way cheaper than ripping it all up and filling it back with more stones.
Becouse laying apshalt straight over old, Brick road never worked. Ever. In not a single country. It just doesnt work for longer term with heavier cars nowadays
That could be anywhere in central Edinburgh.
Spray paint a cock on it and it’ll be gone by next Friday
Clearly the Romans did it better 😀
Our roads back then were great for the most part, they just weren’t great with traction when driving in the wet
I thought this was an anaemic piece of beef
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Funny that the Victorian road has lasted the test of time and the tarmac only a few months.
Starting to think there must be a better material for roads than tarmac.
Those cobbles wouldn’t be there after a week of HGVs driving over tbem