Monday, August 09, 2004
Patch Paving Saves Money - Yeah Right!
On a trip in the valley this weekend, I had the opportunity to travel on some of the secondary roads of our province. A newly completed paving project was evident on a two to three kilometre stretch.
This paving project was unique in its design. First on one side of the road there would be a section paved two to three hundred feet in length. Then a gap of old stuff about 20 ft. long. Then another new strip of similiar length, with the same gaps a few feet further along. The lane on the opposite side was the same, although the gaps did not match up. Hence the unique design.
Paving bumps on bumps - I fail to see how they save money by paving these little strips over such a long distance. It takes more time and equipment to feather these edges each time that it would to pave the entire strip in one section. On top of that, within one winter season, all those 100 to 200 foot strips will begin breaking up and cracking, making the road way rougher than it was before.
Time and time again you can see this sort of 'road work' around our province. No wonder there is no money for paving and improvements. When it is wasted this way, it is the supervisors and the managers that need a kick in the butt, for letting it happen. But then they wouldn't know, for all the experience in that field was let go in the interest of saving money.
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On a trip in the valley this weekend, I had the opportunity to travel on some of the secondary roads of our province. A newly completed paving project was evident on a two to three kilometre stretch.
This paving project was unique in its design. First on one side of the road there would be a section paved two to three hundred feet in length. Then a gap of old stuff about 20 ft. long. Then another new strip of similiar length, with the same gaps a few feet further along. The lane on the opposite side was the same, although the gaps did not match up. Hence the unique design.
Paving bumps on bumps - I fail to see how they save money by paving these little strips over such a long distance. It takes more time and equipment to feather these edges each time that it would to pave the entire strip in one section. On top of that, within one winter season, all those 100 to 200 foot strips will begin breaking up and cracking, making the road way rougher than it was before.
Time and time again you can see this sort of 'road work' around our province. No wonder there is no money for paving and improvements. When it is wasted this way, it is the supervisors and the managers that need a kick in the butt, for letting it happen. But then they wouldn't know, for all the experience in that field was let go in the interest of saving money.
This work by NSCAVE is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License
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