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Old Posted Dec 1, 2018, 4:02 AM
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Contractors use the lowest grades of asphalt they can get away with to save money, if there were a cheaper way to blast rocks, trust me, they'd be using it.
(1) I heard bitumen was used for the twinning of Route 175 in QC though;

(2) No wonder the divided portion of Highway 17 Sudbury SW Bypass has one set of lanes closed each year from May to November for resurfacing (the same with Highway 11 near West Ferris).
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