Street Paving and Maintenance in European CitiesPress of C. S. Nathan, 1913 - 437 páginas The results of a study of paving and pavement maintenance conditions in the leading cities of Europe, made on a trip undertaken for that purpose by direction of the late mayor of New York (W.J. Gaynor). |
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... bridges , are the centers of financial and business activity . The city has grown on a general radial system from a center comprising the old walled town , but has never been laid out on any plan and includes the most unsystematic and ...
... bridges , are the centers of financial and business activity . The city has grown on a general radial system from a center comprising the old walled town , but has never been laid out on any plan and includes the most unsystematic and ...
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... bridges , tunnels and ferries ; the Thames Embankment ; piers ; public control and health , etc. In so far as its jurisdiction affects the city streets , it will be seen from the above that it has control of the pavements on the Thames ...
... bridges , tunnels and ferries ; the Thames Embankment ; piers ; public control and health , etc. In so far as its jurisdiction affects the city streets , it will be seen from the above that it has control of the pavements on the Thames ...
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... bridges are two tunnels , in order to give direct communication between the city on opposite banks of the river along the harbor below the Tower Bridge , where , on account of the nature of the traffic , bridges would not be expedient ...
... bridges are two tunnels , in order to give direct communication between the city on opposite banks of the river along the harbor below the Tower Bridge , where , on account of the nature of the traffic , bridges would not be expedient ...
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... Bridge and the Victoria Embarkment , with that of the main thoroughfare connecting the old city with the center of government activity in Westminster ( which is one street though variously named the Strand , Fleet Street and Ludgate ...
... Bridge and the Victoria Embarkment , with that of the main thoroughfare connecting the old city with the center of government activity in Westminster ( which is one street though variously named the Strand , Fleet Street and Ludgate ...
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... number of motor ' buses , is very much greater , while there are possibly not so many private vehicles and taxicabs . As it is one of the main arteries leading from Westminster Bridge , which has a recorded traffic of 16.
... number of motor ' buses , is very much greater , while there are possibly not so many private vehicles and taxicabs . As it is one of the main arteries leading from Westminster Bridge , which has a recorded traffic of 16.
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accordance Administration amount Antwerp ARTICLE asphalt pavement Berlin bitumen block pavement Borough Bridges and Highways Brussels carriageway carried charge Charlottenburg Chief Engineer City Engineer cleaning compressed asphalt concrete foundation condition construction contract Contractor Corporation cost Council creosote oil cubic curb Department depth direction district electric employed excavation executed expense footways furnished grade granite granite blocks gravel grouted gutter hard wood inches inches deep joints Kleinpflaster laborers laid lighting Liverpool London London County Council macadam maintenance material meter Metropolitan Railways miles mortar municipal necessary Paris paving blocks payment pitch porphyry Portland cement rails railway removed repairs repaving road roadway rock asphalt sand service of Public setts sewers sidewalk slag specifications square yards Steglitz stone block stone pavement street openings subgrade surface Surveyor tion total area tracks traffic tramway trenches width Wilmersdorf wood blocks wood pavement wood paving
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Página 217 - The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
Página 3 - THEY order, said I, this matter better in France. You have been in France ? said my gentleman, turning quick upon me, with the most civil triumph in the world.' Strange ! quoth I, debating the matter with myself, That oneand-twenty miles...
Página 275 - Curbstones to be of syenite, straight or circular as required, 6 inches thick at top, 7 inches thick at 5 inches below, and not less than that thickness for the remainder of the depth. To be not less than 12 inches deep nor less than 3 feet in length; to be carefully dressed on top, 8 inches down face and 3 inches down back, the remainder of each stone to be hammer-dressed. The head joints to be neatly and accurately squared throughout the entire depth.
Página 242 - Board shall have power, with the approval of the Treasury — (a) to make advances to county councils and other highway authorities in respect of the construction of new roads or the improvement of existing roads ; (b) to construct and maintain any new roads ; which appear to the Board to be required for facilitating road traffic.
Página 272 - The foundation is generally of hand-pitched rock, 10 inches deep as for ordinary macadam, but in some cases a bed of 6-inch concrete has been used on main roads. Pitch macadam is also being much used as a surface covering for old boulder pavements, many of which still exist in Liverpool in old streets, where the traffic is very small. The cost of pitch macadam may be taken at is. (24 cents) per square yard per inch of depth.
Página 277 - After the paving is laid, the joints shall be filled with hard, clean, dry shingle; the setts shall then be thoroughly rammed and additional shingle added until the joints are perfectly full. The joints shall then be carefully grouted until completely filled with a hot composition consisting of coal pitch and creosote oil, and, finally, the paving is to be covered with ^in.
Página 273 - Carriageway.—Excavate or fill in the ground, as the case may be, to the requisite level, and remove all surplus material; properly form and trim off the surface, and thoroughly consolidate the same, and then lay a foundation of (a) not less than 6in.
Página 240 - The Board of Trade. The London County Council (2 being members of the Council and 2 not being members of the Council). City of London Corporation (1 being a member of the Corporation and 1 not being a member of the Corporation). Trinity House.
Página 275 - ... on edge in the manner of a rough pavement. Over this a coating of gravel is to be laid of sufficient thickness to fill in the interstices and to form a smooth surface to the foundation, which must be thoroughly consolidated by rolling with a steam roller before the paving is laid. The paving shall consist of 4...
Página 241 - XXIX. -HIGHWAYS. [Street maintenance. — The streets in the Administrative County of London are maintained by the metropolitan borough councils and the City Corporation. The boundaries between boroughs generally run along the middle of the roadway, but for purposes of street paving, etc., the road or street is divided transversely at an agreed point (subject to the approval of the London County Council), and each of the adjoining boroughs becomes responsible for the maintenance of the entire width...