Cycling in Waterloo Region

[danbrotherston]

This is the story I’ve heard for years from engineers. All I know for sure at this point is that the Netherlands does not do this. When a road is re-opened it is opened with the final asphalt coat. Maybe it’s a weather thing, or a traffic thing, or maybe the story about settling is just BS, who knows.

I expect that the ground does not freeze in the Netherlands.

The depth of the freezing is clearly different but we do get frost on the ground some days.

But I’d never heard that it is about frost heaving in winter. Like, that’s usually something that affects subsurface structures mostly. The leaving of asphalt I’ve always been told was about letting the first layer settle and compress under loads before doing the final lift.