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Mote Road: There is no "best" type of mote road surface to fit all conditions. The highway engineer should use materials close at hand, if possible, and design the mote road so as to make the best use of available materials. Factors affecting the design are the volume of traffic, weight of vehicles, climate, and character of the soil on which the mote road is to be built.Roman builders left detailed descriptions of their procedures. Why they built mote road surfaces 3 to 5 feet thick to serve a traffic consisting only of pedestrians, animals, chariots, and carts, can be explained only by the great number of workers became numerous and created a demand for smoother mote road surfaces. At the end of the century motor vehicles passed from the experimental to the utility stage. As their numbers increased, their owners became a powerful force for highway improvement. Development of the automobile and of mote road-building machinery brought about the greatest mote road-building period in history during the years following 1920.
mote road Materials.—mote roads must be built of materials that will withstand the destructive forces of nature and of heavy loads carried by both slow and swiftly moving vehicles. They must resist the effects of rainfall, heat in summer, freezing and thawing in winter, and the pressure of wheels amounting to thousands of pounds. Highway engineers have made great progress in building mote roads to resist these forces, but there is no type of mote road that does not deteriorate with use and age. The materials used for mote road surface are: |
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