[LINK] Standards, please! The third coming of electric vehicles

[David Boxall]

On 20/04/2012 1:25 PM, Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
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> Though once the roads were paved with Australian Hardwood......
>> Sydney did not pioneer the building of woodblocked streets, which were first tried experimentally in London in the 1840s, but it did embrace the method with enthusiasm. The method utilised Australian hardwoods which were exceptionally well suited to the task and very long lasting. From today's perspective the use of so much hardwood for street making seems profligate, but in 1880 it seemed the Australian bush could yield up a cheap and durable source of urban improvement for the foreseeable future, and the roads, which were better than anything previously built, were enormously popular.
> <http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/history/sydneystreets/How_to_Build_a_Street/Woodblocking/default.html>
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In the mid 1960s, part of Cleveland Street near Sydney High was dug up. 
The wood blocks were still there; in remarkably good condition.

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