Pavements for modern traffic . Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto, constructed with Tarvia Seeley Ave., Chicago, with Tarvia A. 63™ CHAPTER PAVEMENTS. Concrete has been used for many years as the base or founda-tion for pavements, but it is only within comparatively recentyears that this material has been used as the wearing•course. In 1890 wide concrete gutters were laid in Beliefontaine,Ohio. These gutters were wide enough to serve as a pavementnext to the curb, and as their surface was very smooth, most ofthe traffic was driven over them. After several yea
Pavements for modern traffic . Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto, constructed with Tarvia Seeley Ave., Chicago, with Tarvia A. 63™ CHAPTER PAVEMENTS. Concrete has been used for many years as the base or founda-tion for pavements, but it is only within comparatively recentyears that this material has been used as the wearing•course. In 1890 wide concrete gutters were laid in Beliefontaine,Ohio. These gutters were wide enough to serve as a pavementnext to the curb, and as their surface was very smooth, most ofthe traffic was driven over them. After several years of suchusage, the concrete showed very slight wear, with no cost formaintenance. This decided the City Engineer to experiment with con-crete for street paving, and in 1893 two narrow streets were entire-ly constructed with concrete. The foundation consisted of a fcur-inch course of cement concrete, and the wearing courseof a 1:1 mixture cf Portland cement and clean coarse sand. Thepavements were laid in strips five feet wide, and then each stripwas cut into blocks five feet square
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