Cobble stone road repaired with ugly asphalt patch on multiple locations in Grund area

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  1. As it’s next to a building site it might be temporary. In fact it looks like something has been put underneath it to make it easier to remove.

  2. You see the white tarp below the asphalt? I would say it is a temporary fix… I’m not expert but I see this done quite often for temporary ramps at construction sites so the trucks can go over the sidewalk. I suppose the white tarp prevents the adhesion of the asphalt to the surface beneath making it easy to remove.

  3. We do this in order to temporarily line the pockets of our cobstruction moguls, in order to make time for a 20 year talk on whether or not to repair a specific square centimeter of road.

    After those decades are over, and 50 different labor unions, associations, associations of other associations, Syvicol, Ponts et Chaussées, twelve ministries and the local mayor, council, aldermen, and ombudman – not to forget 100 NGOs that formed in between – all gave their opinion, we carefully create a 10-year construction site in order to line the pockets of our construction overlords in a more permanent manner.

    Welcome to my country.

  4. I live very close to this and actually spoke to the guys when they were cobbling the rest of the road. They told me it needed to be at least 5c to cure the concrete in the cobbles. If you remember it was quite a bit colder than that just before Christmas and then they left the site for the holidays.

    They didn’t say explicitly but I have confidence they’re going to come back and finish the job – the white tarp underneath almost definitely confirms that. The corniche is one of Luxembourg’s great attractions and a world UNESCO site; they’re not going to uglify it with this asphalt. Ive also seen the excellent and painstaking workmanship they’ve done on the rest of the cobbled roadway so I have faith.

  5. I used to live there and i think i know exactly where that is, is it halfway on the hill/mointain from grund to cents?

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