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Monday, August 22nd, 2016
Road surfacing agility
moment you learn to drive onwards, the assumption is that road surfacing is to be equated with setbacks, tailbacks, and endless stretches of cones, average speed camera zones and hazardously narrowed lanes. In our minds, routinely scarred by delays, disappointments and missed meetings and connections, agility and speed would not be words that we might
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Monday, August 22nd, 2016
Road maintenance services holding you up?
Taking to the open road is something that many convertible driving motorists and cyclists look forward to. So, when the sun comes out and there’s a whole weekend stretching ahead, many set off somewhere in order to escape, to unwind after the week, to simply enjoy the freedom of being on the move without being in a hurry.
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Monday, August 22nd, 2016
Despair over asphalt repair?
Are you starting to panic over surface damage that is fast-becoming a health and safety nightmare, an accident waiting to happen, a claim about to come your way? Worried about how this seems to just keep happening year on year and wearing a hole in your pocket at the same time? If you are routinely
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Monday, August 22nd, 2016
Car Park Resurfacing – not always straight lines
We don’t spend much time in carparks, usually arriving in them with moments to spare before we need to be dashing off elsewhere. We abandon our cars with a hastily bought ticket and glance over our shoulder and vanish into nearby shopping malls, concert halls or airport concourses. Worse still , if we’re running late
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Monday, August 22nd, 2016
Whose asphalt is it anyway?
When it comes to asphalt, getting to grips with what’s really going on below the surface is paramount. There are things we take for granted and being able to move safely from A to B while going about our daily lives is one of them. Whether we are dragging ourselves out for that early morning
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Wednesday, August 17th, 2016
Interview with Howard J Cooke
We interviewed Managing Director, Howard J Cooke, to see whether we might uncover the secret behind his success in both life and business. How does a normal day start for you? What time do you get out of bed in the morning? Luckily I’m a morning person and usually find myself jumping out of bed
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Tuesday, August 16th, 2016
Why being an expert isn’t all it’s cracked up to be
There’s a crack in the system and more than a few cracks in our highway infrastructure as our roads appear to be quite literally crumbling under the weight of daily traffic. Cars, lorries, bikes are all crawling the network of roads like a mass of seething ants hustling from a to b and back again,
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Tuesday, August 16th, 2016
Get on your bike for a smoother ride
When in 2012 Britain’s Sir Bradley Wiggins became the first cyclist to win both Olympic gold and the Tour de France in the same year, the profile of cycling in this country enjoyed a significant gear change, building on the inspiration that had already taken hold among budding cyclists through the multiple gold medal successes
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Tuesday, August 16th, 2016
Seasonal pothole disorder and how to prevent it
If only potholes were a disorder confined to single seasons, but unfortunately they seem to be appearing as a year-round problem affecting us all whether we are motorists, cyclists, pedestrians or air travellers. Just hearing the word itself is enough to elicit a reaction – a groan, a shudder, a recalled near-miss moment, a lucky
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Tuesday, August 16th, 2016
What is the true cost of closing Britain’s roads for maintenance?
We all groan when we hit a stretch of motorway that is being widened, finding ourselves changing down to 50mph and squeezed into narrow lanes sandwiched between hustling lorries and corralled between out-of-kilter road markings. Yet knowing there is an ultimate sense of purpose, that these works are developmental and in the name of progress,
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