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Originally Posted by Keith P.
That section was rebuilt at the time of Quinpool Center's original construction in the late 1970s. The idea was to manage traffic by blocking off the previously-connected Yukon and Yale streets that terminated at Monastery and to install an island on the west exit of the Quinpool Center parking lot that would force traffic exiting to turn left towards Quinpool rather than right towards Allan St. That last tactic failed and soon a chunk of the island was removed, either intentionally or by accident with a snowplow. Truthfully, the whole thing should be re-thought with the experience of 35 years.
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If that concrete section of road was built in the 1970s and never maintained, and it's in THAT good shape (it's in horrible shape, but not for being built 30 years ago), we should be using concrete to build all downtown streets.
A note on good road construction: Inglis Street from Robie to at least Wellington or Tower, maybe South Park. This section of asphalt is very good quality. Lafarge did it back in 2006, and it has never needed touching up, nor has it seen any significant degradation.
I gather Lafarge was the only company that put in a bid that year for that stretch of road. Most of the contracts for resurfacing streets here go to Ocean and Sackville Trenching, and they routinely do a terrible job of sealing around drainage basins, curbs and medians.
It's a shame roads in our climate are built similarly or worse than roads in more southern latitudes where they don't worry about freezing and thawing, excessive water getting below the road surface, or proper drainage.