High Temperatures and Heavy Trucks Turn a Stretch of Asphalt on Jianshe West Road into a Wavy Road

2013-07-18 510 0人评论
     Recently, hot weather has been too much even for some newly paved asphalt roads. Yesterday, a netizen posted on Weibo: at the traffic-light intersection where Jianshe West Road heads toward Bogong Island and meets Lianghu Road, under the double pressure of days of high temperatures and heavy-tonnage engineering trucks, the road surface has actually become wavy. Yesterday, the reporter learned from the Binhu District municipal department that the relevant maintenance unit will send people to carry out repairs as soon as possible, and the road surface repair work can be completed in one day.

  At noon yesterday, the reporter came to the intersection of Jianshe Road and Lianghu Road. Indeed, as the netizen said, about 30 meters of road surface in the deceleration area of this section had already undergone serious deformation, becoming full of ruts and bumps, with the deepest about 20 centimeters. On many of the ruts there were also marks left by vehicles being scraped, and the streaks of white lines looked glaring in the sunlight. Because the road surface was uneven, when slowing down to wait for the red light or turning at this section, drivers always carefully moved forward along the direction of the “grooves,” and harsh scraping sounds came from under the vehicles from time to time. “How is this a road? It is simply a train track,” a passing driver complained to the reporter. “The car's chassis has been scraped and damaged. Who is going to take responsibility for that? This road should have been repaired long ago!”

  At the scene, it was noticed that the asphalt on this section still looked very new. Netizens suspected that the road had become a “wavy road” because of whether there was a problem with the road quality. “It is all because those big trucks pressed it!” A person in charge from the Binhu District municipal department explained that this section is located at an intersection with traffic lights, where many big trucks slow down and then start again, which has a great impact on the road surface. Coupled with factors such as high temperatures, this caused the road surface to bulge and deform. Generally speaking, at intersections where large vehicles frequently pass, this kind of phenomenon is relatively likely to appear on the road surface. “Usually, as long as ruts of more than 1.5 centimeters appear on the road surface, we will carry out maintenance.” He said that the maintenance unit would repair the road surface as soon as possible, and the repair work could be completed in one day.

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