Tallinn to test concrete road surfaces

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With a large residential housing area, a city ring road, electric power lines and gas pipelines less than 100 metres from PTT’s Väo quarry in Tallinn, Estonia, the past 20 years has seen the company using hammers rather than blasting in order to gain the vast majority of its limesto

The Estonian Road Administration has commissioned the feasibility study of concrete surface roads.

Arvo Tinn, a renowned road engineer from Australia, will supply the expert opinion on concrete roads.

He has said that roads passing through cities should be best under the direct control of the Road Administration as this would ease control over road repairs.

Arvo Tinn claims the building of concrete roads could be cheaper to build than asphalt surfaced roads and repairs of concrete roads would be 20