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Re:Why Sweden Has So Few Road Deaths by jacquesm on Wednesday December 31, 2014 @04:11PM (#8821106)
In NL we use this: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeer_Open_Asfalt

It's super good if you have lots of rain (the rain sinks right away under the road surface) but it is prone to frost damage. Super quiet and great in the rain though, the difference is incredible when you switch from ZOAB to regular asphalt or the other way around.

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Re:Why Sweden Has So Few Road Deaths by ominous_prime on Wednesday December 31, 2014 @05:30PM (#8821397)
I remember tests of a similar asphalt near me in the NE US. In the spring we had black banks of it all along the road, where it was scraped off by snowplows over the winter. What's left was packed with sand.
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