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What is the advantages of having a Brick pavement

Papi , Monday, 9th of August 2010 09:24:11 PM

Hello there, l have a question over method of pavement for road.
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/>We see roads paved with asphalt, concrete, and sometimes with bricks.But 
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As l drive down the road which is paved with bricks, l just can not 
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understand why someone was trying to come up with this method.To me, they 
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are noisy, and bumpy.

l guess it can drain water better or 
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have relatively lower cost to maintain for roads with smaller size.Or they 
are there from the old days, so they are kept there.

l really 
do not know.Please enlighten me.Thank you
 
 
 
 
 
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HunnyBear , Tuesday, 10th of August 2010 04:08:01 AM

The road I live in [in the UK] has brick road surface &  
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footpath.  
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My drive is brick.  
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They are concrete bricks.  
 
The advantages of them are as follows.  
 
You can dig a hole in them & replace them without leaving a different  
repair mark.  
Cheap, because they are laid straight on to a sand bed, they do not need  
hardcore & a foundation.  
They do not crack like concrete or tarmac.  
They look good.  
The surface is far stronger than laid concrete as they are all made at a  
factory in controlled conditions.  
You don't rely on good weather before you lay the surface, [it can rain  
while you are doing the job]  
They are the cheapest of ways to lay a good drive.  
 
 
They are not suitable for fast roads, only for side roads & drives.  
 
 
 
 
 
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chicken scratch* , Wednesday, 11th of August 2010 05:01:22 AM

If by brick you mean old-fashioned brick vs. the red brick you  
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see in homes nowadays.  
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Then the answer is durability. This is why European roads last longer than  
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American roads. I know that brick is more durable than asphalt. I don't  
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know who would win w/ concrete vs. brick, but seeing how most american  
roads are paved w/ asphalt this wouldn't be as large an issue.  
 
Obviously the aesthetics also comes into play, but that isn't physically  
more advantageous.  
 
 
 
 
 
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Grandpa , Thursday, 12th of August 2010 01:42:19 AM

It was an old-time way of paving roads, created before they had  
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machines for laying down and smoothing out blacktop. The only reason they  
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do a newer road with them is for aesthetics, or to maintain an  
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''old-time'' feel.  
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Michi , Friday, 13th of August 2010 12:20:41 PM

Aesthetics. They make the roadway look more quaint. There is  
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a movement here in the west to create ''Urban Villages'' (I have counted  
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at least five such McVillages in San Diego County alone). This involves  
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renaming ''Main Street'' to ''(the name of ur town) Village Drive &  
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putting in antique looking lamp posts, & brick streets.  
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There is no good ENGINEERING reason to do so. In fact, most are not  
really brick, but concrete that is colored, & patterned to look like  
brick.  
 
An engineer is main job is often to keep architects & designers bolted to  
the ground. We sometimes fail.  
 
 
 
 
 
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