
Episode 355: Asphalt - A History
Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast
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Amse Barber and the Roads Industry in Trinidad
Asphalt was a colonial prize, where british and american business people went into places like venezila in trinidad. And use it to pave roads. They would get the city councils and mayors to specify a certain type of asphalt,. Only their company produced that particular type. It was just absolutely ridiculous in the way it worked. Put agein eruption was a big, big part of this book. What these guys focused on was winning urban municipal taving contracts. That was corrupt as all get out.
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