Going for gold

摘要

As I write, Team Scotland is celebrating its best-ever medal total at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow; an event which has given the world an outstanding window into the best that Scotland can deliver. However, as the marathon TV coverage made its way through the city, my road maintenance eye was inevitably drawn away from the athletes to the road surface, the drainage, signs and road markings -1 have to say it looked quite good! I explained last month some of the background to our Pavement Forum and our TS2010 surfacing specification. One radical change in this is that no minimum requirement for initial texture depth is specified. Instead, all new surface courses are required to be tested at four weeks and six months using a GripTester. Data is also being collected on older surfacings for comparison purposes. It is intended the information will be analysed and shared through the Pavement Forum to designers to improve their knowledge and assist them in the selection of aggregates on a scheme by scheme basis with an overall objective of increasing durability and sustainability. But is this all making a difference?