On 19/03/2021 14:26, NY wrote:
"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.

There is still a chunk of concrete slab A19 like that round Billingham.
There may be a bit less of it after the latest roadworks have finished.

Hard wearing but noisy would be my summary.
Is there still some on the M6 old Preston bypass section?

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Martin Brown