Moscow Tverskaya Street was repaved with 8000 tones of asphalt installed in one day
Tverskaya Street, known as Gorky Street between 1935 and 1990, is the main and probably best-known radial street in Moscow.
Tverskaya Street after a restoration NEWSCOPTER 2016
More amazing pictures of Tverskaya Street and the Moscow center
The entire Moscow is being dressed now in natural light colored granite.
A very interesting photo-trip to Bashkirian open-pit mines that produce building materials and dimension stones for Moscow.
Bashkiria is located between the Southern Ural Mountains and Volga River.
About 4000 people around Ural are employed by the manufacturer of the granite stone tiles for Moscow.
I forgot to mention that these Moscow granite tiles are 350 million years old.
Don’t miss this photo-report. You can thank me later.
Scott
Well done Moscow! Hey could that crew come to Chisinau, Moldova? We need help a lot of help especially in the area of road work and maintenance. We can’t pay a lot cause someone stole our money but we could give the workers a lot of great wine to take back with them.
This flight tonight,
Hey could that crew come to Chisinau, Moldova
The easier solution is political integration across the Slavic Orthodox societies and cultures – Russia, Belarus, Ukraine (Orthodox regions), Moldova, Georgia …
Wow poetry in motion… (calling ioan)
Here in Oz, a dozens workers would stand around a hole with a shovel while 10 men would look on deciding who next should hold the shovel.
As the decision would be too hard they would all take a 10-20 break to have a ciggie.
Meanwhile a woman holding the ‘stop’ sign would keep the traffic held up for 15 minutes waiting for a man to give her a signal to turn the sign to ‘go’.
100 metres of road resurfacing would take one week… if lucky.
It looks very nice, I’m glad they are remodeling the city now that I am going….
This avenue seems to have no place where to cross it, are those mouths on the ground the way to do it underground?
I see the Kremlin at the end of the avenue, is this then a good place to stay?
I hope the comrades working so hard in the quarries so that muscovites and visitors enjoy strolling are taking an excellent salary.
It would be interesting to know for whom they work for and how much they earn a month, approximately……
You see, these things I find very interesting to know, as well as visiting the Kremlin Armoury to admire the crowns of the Tzars and Tsarinas embossed with brights and precious stones……
I wonder if we have any stonecutter beatified along Russian History or even World History……
Thanks for the report.
No worries. The crossings in that area are mostly underground. You will be fine.
I dislike asphalt. Intensely. It is a toxic material. To humans, animals and plants. Easy to find out degree of its toxicity in roads, shingles, etc. It is cheap and easy to install/replace and these are its main advantages. And it is deadly/ugly looking.
Stone, on the other hand, is timeless, beautiful, nontoxic (when finished). Expensive, yes. Some European streets used to be paved with small granite blocks in circular/elliptic arc patterns. And they looked pretty. Yes, there was increased noise level, due to an engineering demand for rough surface/increased friction, for shorter stopping times during car breaking. But that problem can be solved with different surface finish, that can be refreshed say every dozen or more years.
With current technologies, it is easy to reduce cost of making and layout of traffic stones, producing nontoxic pretty streets (that will not need toxic resurfacing every 2/3 years) perhaps only occasional individual stone replacement.
Best Regards, Spiral
Germany had another solution in the 30s before the war. Blocks of some other material was
placed on the autobahns. Am I right? They were still there when I travelled in Germany
decades later. It was like travelling on a train. You heard a sound when you moved from one
block to another.
The stones you refer to are still in place in some cities. They were handmade and the
industry florished. When machines replaced the workers the quality went down and asphalt
took over. When I look at the stones I think of the excellent lowpaid workers and the modern
mistaken belief machines can always replace skilled workers.
Bohuslan in Western Sweden was dependent on the stones. When the machines took over
the workers and their families starved like the British weavers in the 19th century. People
used to listen to dynamite explosions and say another worker killed himself. Forgotten
history, if not forbidden.
Today we may produce better and bigger stones and get rid of asphalt.
I heard some small communities in the US went back to Scandinavian gravel roads to limit costs. The US infrastructure suffers and small communities do well to go back to old solutions, but what does this say about the state of the US?
I saw those granite pavers being installed when I was in Moscow last month. They look incredible and I was actually wondering what the story was with that. Now I know and it is even more impressive.
Thanks!
Scott – thanks! Incredible photographs in both photo-essays. Many of these pictures are worthy of awards – many.
You said to thank you later, but all I could think of was to rush back and thank you now.
You make the heart yearn to see all this at first hand, in Russia.
You and the Saker – working on commission for the RF Department of Tourism – I long suspected this conspiracy, no doubt about it now ;)