Originally Posted by
CCrew
Be thankful guys. Where I am they're trying to cut corners and do what they call "slurry paving". They bring one of the asphalt grinders in and grind the top surface off, mix it with tar and put it right back down. You get all the stink of fresh asphalt, and a road surface that's like riding on sandpaper it's so rough. Almost as bad as tar and chip, without the loose gravel.
-R
That sounds almost as bad as the roads I grew up on where they'd just lay down a layer of tar every 2-3 years and then throw down some pea gravel on top and call it "paved". Bad for bikes and bad for cars as the first several months all the gravel would be thrown up into the undersides of the cars as they drove over it and you just didn't want to bike on it for fear of getting sprayed with gravel by the passing cars and getting tar all over your bike/self.