Crushed wood is stronger than steel

Re:Crushed wood is stronger than steel by Isamu on Thursday February 08, 2018 @10:50AM (#16332882)

There is still a street in Pittsburgh that is end-grain wood blocks. (In Shadyside, a short residential street.) They continue to treat it with tar. So I wonder if it was a similar idea.

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Re:Crushed wood is stronger than steel by Nav_Panel on Thursday February 08, 2018 @11:48AM (#16333456)

This might be what you're thinking of: http://www.pittsburghmagazine.com/Best-of-the-Burgh-Blogs/Th...

Here's a street view link: https://goo.gl/maps/smQp7BpkgHF2

It's a bit of a random little stub street, so I'd never noticed it during my 4 years of undergrad, but it's a neat lil artifact.

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Re:Crushed wood is stronger than steel by twic on Thursday February 08, 2018 @06:06PM (#16336385)

There's a tiny amount left in London:

https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2015/01/10/the-time-when-lo...

This seems to be a topic which animates a certain kind of urbanist nerd (of whom Ian Visits is the prince):

http://www.roadswerenotbuiltforcars.com/wood/

http://www.endgrain.org.uk/history/

That last page is from some Welsh applied research project on using more endgrain wood for surfaces; there's lots more interesting material on that site.

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Re:Crushed wood is stronger than steel by djtriptych on Thursday February 08, 2018 @11:19AM (#16333208)

Any chance you can find a google street view link for this?

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Re:Crushed wood is stronger than steel by kevindqc on Thursday February 08, 2018 @11:23AM (#16333246)

I found this image, but it's from Philadelphia:

http://www.philly.com/philly/living/20151225_Changing_Skylin...

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