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Identifier: cityroadspavemen00juds (find matches)
Title: City roads and pavements suited to cities of moderate size.
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Judson, William Pierson, 1849-1925
Subjects: Streets Pavements Roads
Publisher: New York : The Engineering news publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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dondCone ret*. Granite povement Broadway, New York, has very heavy traffic and hasbeen repeatedly paved, from Fifty-eighth street to theBattery, five miles, with various forms of granite andof trap blocks; portions of which have needed relayingafter three years use, and all of which have been dirtyand noisy. These conditions are shown to be unnec-essary by the fact that during 1900, this block-stonepavement was re-set and used as the foundation fornoiseless sheet-asphalt, which can be kept clean, andwhich is guaranteed to be in perfect condition duringand at the end of ten years. This was done fromFifty-eighth street to Fourteenth street, two and a halfmiles, (and also on sixty other streets in New York,)during 1900, and has been extended to Canal street, 59 CITY ROADS AND PAVEMENTS.
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Metn.politan Op^ra H. BROADWAY, NEW YORK, 1900. Looking up from the Casino at Thirty-ninth Street. After paving- with sheet-asphalt, in 1900 : Trinidad Lake wearing-surface ; Bermudez Lake binder-coat. 60 BLOCK-STONE PAVEMENTS. one and one-fourth miles, during 1901, and in 1902 willbe continued one and one-fourth miles to the foot ofBroadway at the Battery. Many other cities of theUnited States have, during the.past ten years, preferredto use sheet-asphalt or brick rather than granite blocks, I.with the result that the total annual expenditure of thecities of the United States for granite block pavementshas decreased one-half since 1890. The ill results obtained from pavements of graniteand trap blocks are much less marked when the pave-ments are formed of blocks of Medina, N. Y., sandstoneor Kettle River, Minnesota, sandstone. These sand-stones wear flat, do not polish, and approach granite intheir resistance to crushing force, as indicated by thefollowTng statements of average pound

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