Long-awaited asphalt quality test results are in, revealing this summer’s partially completed asphalt recycling project on The Kingsway is not up to snuff.
The hot in-place asphalt recycling pilot project undertaken by Road Surface Recycling was on The Kingsway between the Highway 17 bypass and 400 metres southeast of Second Avenue. Further, the city noted, “The deficiencies described in the report will cause premature distress and may reduce the expected service life of the material by approximately 30 to 60 per cent, leading to increased maintenance costs.”
The typical service life for hot in-place asphalt recycling is approximately seven years for freeway and nine years for non-freeway traffic. “For them to send all these people out and log us the way they did .. that’s a discriminatory practice,” he said. “Never have we ever been tested like that.” As Crupi has already noted to Sudbury.com, part of the issue with The Kingsway is the material under the surface layer of asphalt, which he said is made of inadequate material that doesn’t bond.