What are those dents in I-90 outside Seattle?

Re:What are those dents in I-90 outside Seattle? by loeg on Friday December 30, 2022 @08:34PM (#34192436)

Older Seattle area roads tend to be concrete; newer roads are more frequently asphalt. It was definitely very popular here in recent memory — I could name tons of concrete Seattle roads off the top of my head — but my impression is it is no longer as popular in new construction.

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Re:What are those dents in I-90 outside Seattle? by toast0 on Friday December 30, 2022 @10:27PM (#34193208)

There's some real old roads that are bricks under asphalt. That's a trip. Some of the real steep stuff like Bell or Blanchard at Western, IIRC.

PS if you like brick roads, there's a big (flat) one out in Redmond I accidently drove on once that someone made a nice post about https://www.dadlogic.net/old-red-brick-road-redmond/

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Re:What are those dents in I-90 outside Seattle? by loeg on Friday December 30, 2022 @11:15PM (#34193495)

Yeah, sometimes you see the brick where the asphalt has worn away. There's a bunch of that in Pioneer Square, I think.

I've actually been out to the Redmond brick road before (on a bicycle -- it was unpleasant).

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