Halifax road made from recycled tires is first in Nova Scotia
Posted Mar 12, 2014 03:53:33 PM.
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Halifax Regional Municipality is paving the way in tire recycling in Canada.
A new stretch of road way in Ragged Lake Park is now in operation.
It’s the first of it’s kind in nova scotia: a road made with recycled tires.
The access ramp in Ragged Lake Park connects the transit terminal there to Highway 103 and it’s used exclusively by buses.
HRM Transportation Planning Manager David McCusker says it’s improved our transit system already.
“The purpose of making this connection was to get the buses out into the road network more quickly instead of getting bogged down in traffic,” said McCusker.
McCusker says tires are appealling as construction material.
“They’re lighter than gravel or soils are,” said McCusker. “In wet weather they don’t get saturated the way soils do. Really, the biggest benefit is the ability to get rid of the tires and not have them accumulate.”
Around 800-thousand scrap tires were used in this project. That’s more than half of all tired produced each year in Nova Scotia.
