whats the reason?

LegacyUser

This may seem like a silly question,but does anybody know the reason why sections of the James Larkin road in Dublin are made from sections of poured concrete instead of tarmac?...I travel the road every now and then and have often wondered about it.

Victor

Concrete was locally produced and aided the balance of trade.

Wishbone Ash

Much of the Dublin-Belfast road between Drogheda and Dundalk was also made of concrete. It can still be seen in places.

spacetweek

There are a very large number of inner suburban and old outer suburban roads which are concrete-paved.

popebenny16

The poured concrete sections are the oldest, simple as that. The tarmacked sections are where the conteete has been replaced, sometimes en-masse, because of its deteriatation.

Wasnt the original M1 in the UK concrete pavement as well?

Must simply have been the fashion in the 40's to the 60's.

Our man in Havana

Typical East German autobhan construction tbh. It was cheap!

DerekP11

The large housing estates in Drimnagh, Crumlin and Cabra are perhaps the best example of this practise. Late 30s/early 40s.

LegacyUser

So there is no enginering reason for using concrete on those sections? There was me thinking that there may have been an enginering reason for it because of the roads proximity to the seashore...ah well.

DerekP11

kaiser1 wrote:

So there is no enginering reason for using concrete on those sections? There was me thinking that there may have been an enginering reason for it because of the roads proximity to the seashore...ah well.

Couldn't tell you about the engineering reasons, but Ive just realised that some estates here in Naas, built circa late 70s/early 80s also have poured concrete roads through them. In fact the Monread area of Naas (built in the 90s) has many examples of this.

So who can tell us why?

Wishbone Ash

DerekP11 wrote:

Couldn't tell you about the engineering reasons, but Ive just realised that some estates here in Naas, built circa late 70s/early 80s also have poured concrete roads through them. In fact the Monread area of Naas (built in the 90s) has many examples of this.

So who can tell us why?

The road outside my house is poured concrete. Constructed in 1996!