
Episode 355: Asphalt - A History
Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast
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War of the Seabees
i focus on thei use of roads and runt especially runways pacific islands. We would some of those islands, wol basely pay teoe island. If one runway could be up to two miles long, and one and you might have like ten runaways. And bombers taken off every six minutes. Without pavement, those bombs don't get delivered. Asphalt is responsible for a deatha totof violente in the world. That goes from war bombing to car crashes, motor cycles, pedestrian deaths,. bicycle deaths. larence of arabia died on asphalt. He survived arabia. E didn't survive a motocyte crash with two kids on bicycles
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