By Leftlane Staff
Thursday, Jun 1st, 2006 @ 9:15 am

Previously, we told you about a wacky idea across the pond that involves converting railroad tracks into roads. Yesterday, the BBC published a look at the implementation of the idea. Essentially, the type of rubber panels used at railway crossings are laid for the entire length of a railroad, to create a path that cars can drive on. “It took four men five days to put down 300m of road,” said Peter Coates Smith of Holdfast, the company behind the scheme. “The panels we’d be using [in the future] are three times as long, so you can imagine 900m in five days.” Mr. Coates Smith says the rubber surfaces are superior to regular pavement in almost every way. “There are no potholes, there’s no cracking, no spoiling from frost and it’s very quiet” he said.

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