Why around construction sites do they tear up the asphalt at an intersection (see my crude picture)? Is it supposed to be some type of speed bumb?
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The x show where the asphalt has been torn up.
What are they doing? Could the torn up sections be where they trenched down to do utility work?
I doubt that they’re just tearing up the road to make speed bumps; a patched up road lasts a fraction as long as one that’s still in one piece. FWIW, my city council once discussed the idea of adding a five-figure charge to any projects that required cutting trenches in a road. This was to cover the cost of increased maintenance and rebuilding the road a few years early.
The board crashed; this may be a double post…
They’re extending underground utilities (water, sewer, etc) to the new building(s).
I wondered if maybe that was what they were doing, but I thought the postioning was interesting. I saw this twice in 2 different towns where they were building a structure. The reason I have trouble believing the ungerground utilities answer is because on both of them 2 seperate strips were torn up. Both of these strips were on opposite sides of a road (as my picture crudely showed) that didn’t have a stop sign. So these strips acted like speed bumps in making people slow down.
No need to tear up ihe freakin’ road, mongrel_8,. Just install a few of these thingies;
http://www.parkingblock.com/bumps.htm
As Bumbazine say’s, those nifty x’s of yours are for utilities etc. Possibly temporary.
Peace,
mangeorge
Usually I just stop by & ask the City public works people (or call them) & they always have the answer & then some.