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Here in the netherlands we have a tremendous amount of sidewalks per capita and they are 99.99% tiled. Some of the sidewalks are over 50 years old and stil in g

Here in the netherlands we have a tremendous amount of sidewalks per capita and they are 99.99% tiled. Some of the sidewalks are over 50 years old and stil in good shape. There are many benefits of tiled sidewalks. Its pretty easy to put cables underneath. Happens every few years (internet, electricity). You also dont need fancy equipment to make them. Or repair them.

j-a-a-p 3y ago
Dutch tiled sidewalks are different from what I have seen in China. They embed thick tiles, hardened bricks nowadays, in sand. Chinese make concrete sidewalks topped with thinner tiles. Nice when it rains some tiles work like mud pumps spraying your feet. BTW I have no statistics on Chinese sidewalk maintenance, but when I lived there development was so fast that a sidewalk would have to be broken up every 2, 3 years anyway for new cables, pipes or whatever. I always wondered why they didn't use the tile plus sand system, as this involved always in noisy and dusty concrete hammering.