Our lives have been planned along a road grid-homes far from work, shopping far from everything, with ugly stretches of concrete and blacktop in between.
By the time the United States invaded in 2001, there were only a mere fifty kilometers of paved roads to speak of in the entire country that's bigger than France.
By adding rubber " crumbs" , reclaimed from shredded tyres, to the bitumen and crushed stone used to make asphalt, engineers are designing quieter streets.
Laid on June 30th, in Leningrad's Vsevolozhsk district, the 700-meter-long strawberry-scented asphalt road is part of Russia's Safe High-Quality Roads national project.
Laid in Leningrad's Vsevolozhsk district, the 700-meter-long strawberry-scented asphalt road is part of Russia's Safe High-Quality Roads national project.