Post by dred98 on Aug 17, 2004 9:27:35 GMT -6
This is from the local news - 
GATINEAU - You can keep on dreaming about highways paved with gold.
In West Quebec, however, you can find them paved with something just as unusual.
The road crew that does this work could be called the toilet-tissue brigade.
The crew's main job is to fill cracks in the pavement with tar. But, once that's done, they have a unique way to keep that tar off the tires of passing cars, and to keep it from leaking out of cracks on the sides of hills.
They spread toilet paper over the tar.
A private company came up with the toilet-tissue idea a year ago. It rolls out 48,000 metres of toilet tissue every day. Employee James Gaspé points out that they use only one-ply toilet tissue, because, if they used two-ply, the top layer would just blow away.
Once the tar has dried, the toilet tissue just washes away with the next rain.
GATINEAU - You can keep on dreaming about highways paved with gold.
In West Quebec, however, you can find them paved with something just as unusual.
The road crew that does this work could be called the toilet-tissue brigade.
The crew's main job is to fill cracks in the pavement with tar. But, once that's done, they have a unique way to keep that tar off the tires of passing cars, and to keep it from leaking out of cracks on the sides of hills.
They spread toilet paper over the tar.
A private company came up with the toilet-tissue idea a year ago. It rolls out 48,000 metres of toilet tissue every day. Employee James Gaspé points out that they use only one-ply toilet tissue, because, if they used two-ply, the top layer would just blow away.
Once the tar has dried, the toilet tissue just washes away with the next rain.
