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The joy of not having any infrastructure buried under the streets: "Investigations at Pompeii have shown that particularly high volumes of traffic concentrated
by rini17 7y ago
The joy of not having any infrastructure buried under the streets:
"Investigations at Pompeii have shown that particularly high volumes of traffic concentrated in narrow streets could wear down even a stone-paved surface in only a few decades,"
- WJW 7y ago"A few decades" I bet there are not all that many streets in the western world which have been around at all for more than a decade.
- vonmoltke 7y agoSnarky answer: there are plenty around me, and they show it. Serious answer: the street I grew up on, and most of the rest of the streets in that neighborhood, are 30 years old. They were last paved when I was nine. The ones that are newer were only paved because they were ripped up for utility work. There are plenty of roads in the US much older than a decade.
- narag 7y agoI'm not sure the road was already there when I was born, no recollection it was ever re-paved until they started to dig for utilities twenty-something years later, with all the trucks that carried stuff to build the beach neighbourhoods. The difference between the old stuff and the new crap they use to pave it is unbelievable. Two years without repaving and it's full of holes.
- Rebelgecko 7y agoProbably more than you expect— here in Los Angeles (not a particularly old city), there's hundreds of asphalt streets that haven't been repaved since the 1930s and 1940s while they've been trapped in a Kafkaesque bureaucratic hell (the city disowned the streets for liability purposes). There's even a short stone street in Pasadena that dates back to 1900 or so. I don't think it's been entirely redone at any point, although you can tell where some of the granite chunks have been replaced.
- toasterlovin 7y agoDon’t forget all the concrete streets in LA! All the streets before a certain vintage were paved with concrete and are mostly intact where they haven’t been covered with asphalt.
- perl4ever 7y agoThere's a street in the American city where I live that's said to be about 400 years old. http://alloveralbany.com/archive/2018/09/07/maiden-lane-albany-design-plan http://alloveralbany.com/archive/2018/09/07/maiden-lane-alba...
- DoctorOetker 7y agohere in Ghent, Belgium, we have many cobble stone streets that are easily more than decades old... OK, annoying to ride the bike on, but entertaining to see girls on their bicycle saddle...
- camtarn 7y agoPlenty of cobbled streets in old European cities, some of them open to vehicle traffic - here in Edinburgh, for instance.
- mreome 7y agoMore then a decade? There are quite a few streets that have been around since 2008.
- lsllc 7y agoThe street I live on has not been repaved in the 22 years I have lived here (much to my chagrin!).