"jon" wrote in message ...
On Fri, 19 Mar 2021 13:02:12 +0000, Harry Bloomfield, Esq. wrote:

Originally concrete slab, later tarmaced. They are resurfacing and have
scrapped up the tarmac down to concrete - how long do they normally
leave it, before returning to retarmac?

It's been two weeks now.

They could leave it, we have some concrete roads around here.

I remember when major roads like the A34 between Oxford and the M40 were
made up of concrete slabs, with tar expansion joints. Not a nice road
surface to drive on - very hard (tarmac is hard, but there's a bit more give
in it) and the thump-thump-thump of each joint gets very annoying after a
few seconds ;-) About the only thing in their favour was that concrete roads
were very hard-wearing and didn't need resurfacing every few years.