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Originally Posted by wave46
This isn't Ottawa-based, but you can appreciate how the mentality reflects on the city.
City of Sudbury hospital (Health Sciences North) uses interlocking stone pathways. They look half-decent, but over time time, the stones break and need to be replaced.
Do they do it right? Nah. Fill it with cold-pack, like they use for potholes on city streets. Now it looks hideous in addition to not being a very good patch.
Half-assed? Nah, quarter-assed at most.
City of Sudbury specific: grind the pavement up to an intersection. Replace 95% of it with nice, fresh pavement. Leave a 15-foot gap between the intersection and the new fresh pavement. Why? Because why not?
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This is so Ottawa. They love to use brick pavers for sidewalks and crosswalks, but when one eventually gets dislodged due to weather and wear-and-tear from cars driving over them, instead of replacing the broken and missing bricks they just cover that section in asphalt. So you have an ugly black patch covering a portion of a brick crosswalk... This was the case at
Bayswater and Laurel where they eventually decided to just cover the entire crosswalk with asphalt.
Parkdale at Sherwood is another prime example of asphalt patching on pavers.
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