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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 02/10/2026

Also in September: 42% of new car sales in France were fully electric.

evalpavement.bsky.social @evalpavement.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

lane the trucks take to turn into port. Having to stop at a stoplight magnifies the plastic deformation. (The asphalt’s viscosity provides much of the resistance as the vehicle lingers with the 80,000 load, instantaneous elastic component doesn’t help as much.) And ofc if hot, viscosity ⬇️

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evalpavement.bsky.social @evalpavement.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

The pavement may indeed be the location of a discontinuity in space, in which case a physicist or mathematician may be the appropriate expert to comment ( cc @saavikford.bsky.social ), but if it’s pavement distress I see signs of a sinkhole… 1/n +

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Edgardo Block @edgardoblock.eurosky.social · 22/06/2026

In my years working in pavement and transportation asset management, it has been difficult to convey the message of infrastructure deterioration at the system scale. We were effective in CT for pavement (at the state level, locally it depends on the municipality) - you can see the impacts… +

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

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evalpavement.bsky.social @evalpavement.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Fascinating* situation on so many levels. Swelling soils are, for pavement engineers, difficult both from a technical standpoint (the solutions are site-specific) and from a political POV: The solutions are almost invariably $$$$… so it’s a lit of internal… + www.kentonline.co.uk/herne-bay/ne...

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‘It’s a disgrace’: The ‘rollercoaster’ A-road costing Kent taxpayers millions

The need for yet more restrictions on a bumpy stretch of a busy dual-carriageway has been branded an “absolute disgrace”.

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evalpavement.bsky.social @evalpavement.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Last weekend at Tanglewood (Lenox, MA) I had the pleasure of spending most of the morning and afternoon, and one of the paths (from the shed to Ozawa Hall) is surfaced with a very interesting material, sort of grey clay with some screenings. Really packed in nicely, smooth for walking or whlchr… +

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evalpavement.bsky.social @evalpavement.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

When the public is complaining about a generalized pothole problem, you likely have a massive backlog of pavement needs. Citizen complaints express a tacit “minimum condition level” for pavements. Potholes everywhere are a symptom and cannot be addressed in a vacuum..+ www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Kent County Council needs funds to fix potholes - representative

The repair backlog to fix potholes in the south east of England is £2.5bn, according to a report.

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evalpavement.bsky.social @evalpavement.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

This pavement has the texture of a “porous pavement.” The purpose is to allow water through the asphalt down into the granular layers. Mix is “open-graded” (use a single-size stone and add a “choke aggregate” (smaller stone) to help stabilize the mix if needed… +

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evalpavement.bsky.social @evalpavement.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

British Bigfoot has shoes, apparently! Distress: 68/100 Function: 58/100 Photo: 100/100 The cause of these surface potholes (external factors stress the pavement, and its ability to resist them is what we can do about it) can be primarily traced to the top layer, aka the “paving lift.” … +

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evalpavement.bsky.social @evalpavement.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

In a chart like this, with the definitions in small print, and measurement technology and processes, it’s possible to make some claims at least about pavement, based on the data: For infrastructure management, the most consequential breakpoint is between the greys. From a lifecycle angle, … +

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Jeff Allen @jamaps.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

recently charted replacement values of infrastructure across canada made from statscan data for this report: schoolofcities.utoronto.ca/wp-content/u... #canada #infrastructure #dataviz @uoftcities.bsky.social

tree-map bar chart of the total value ($) of infrastructure assets across canada broken down by type of infrastructure (e.g. roads, transit, water) and condition (e.g. poor, fair, good, etc.)

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evalpavement.bsky.social @evalpavement.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Gravel roads have their own distress forms and maintenance strategies. Here the visible distress is some washboarding, and a pass of a motor grader helps start fresh… (1/n) Distress: 78/100 Function: 82/100 Photo: 100/100

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evalpavement.bsky.social @evalpavement.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Chip seals show up in the most gorgeous remote landscapes. That’s because they are a cost-effective and proven technology for providing a bound pavement surface for these roads. Distress: 85/100 (some deformation) Function: 95/100 Photo: 100/100 1/n

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evalpavement.bsky.social @evalpavement.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

It rained into the morning and it’s winter so the 2019 pavement on this street is mostly wet. Just about the time to begin to see cracks in the asphalt. Mechanics of materials at play, in this case thermal expansion and contraction meeting the narrowest section of pavement to resist the tension

Pavement, with two catch basins opposite each other across the street. A crack crosses the pavement at this location, which happens to be narrower than the rest of the road by more than 10% because of the drainage structures. In the vicinity of the catch basin in the foreground some low-severity alligator cracking has formed

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