No Bricklayer Required For This Brick Road
Spokane has some really cool brick roads under the current pavement. Bricks are beautiful and durable, so why don't they make roads out of them any longer? Because it takes a huge effort to produce them.
The invention of a new machine that rolls out an almost 'instant road' could change all that though.
Here's how the 'Tiger-Stone' works.
About SRTC
SRTC is the federally designated Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) for Spokane County. Urbanized areas with populations exceeding 50,000 people are required to have an MPO. SRTC was formed to address the county's transportation planning needs. It provides coordination in planning between the public, cities, small towns, the county, the state, transit providers, and tribes.
SRTC offers services including transportation monitoring, transportation modeling, census information analysis, travel demand forecasting, historical traffic count analysis, geographic information systems, and trip generation rates.
Spokane has some really cool brick roads under the current pavement. Bricks are beautiful and durable, so why don't they make roads out of them any longer? Because it takes a huge effort to produce them. 
4 comments:
Wow! that is really neat. My first job was parking cars at Roosevelt Apt garage on Howard between 6th and 7th and it was a brick street when I worked there. Really slick with a little snow on the bricks. My dad told me they put bricks on the hills so the horses could get a foothold while climbing the hills.
That's really cool Charles, thanks for sharing! Something I found out about the bricks recently was that they were made specially for paving out a kind of clay, so each brick weighed as much as eleven pounds. Not sure how accurate that is but it sounded cool.
Hahaha...It's like the Pergo of Bricks, that's crazy!
I love the analogy @candiceyamaura! Now you just need a nice area rug and some sidewalks and you've got a whole new look for your neighborhood.
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