And now my cars will be covered in sticky asphalt bits

"Textured Soy Protein" (texturedsoyprotein)
07/17/2014 at 12:59 • Filed to: None

Yesterday morning, my street got a nice dose of chip sealing. The city of Madison !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! . (Yes, that is a corn field behind some McMansion-y looking duplexes.)

Chip sealing consists of first putting down a layer of sticky asphalt goop on the road, then covering it with loose asphalt gravel. It's quick, cheap, and easy because instead of actually paving the road, they just leave the loose gravel and say "fuck it, the cars that drive over this stuff will eventually pack the gravel into the asphalt goop underneath."

Until the gravel sets into the sticky asphalt underneath—which can take pretty long depending on how busy the street is—there's loose gravel covered in sticky crap, all over the street. The last time the city chip sealed a street on which I lived, I had sticky little black dots all up along the sides of my car for months.

Yeah I guess my street could've used a bit of smoothing over, but cleaning the gravel kicked up from the tires off the side of the car is so annoying.

DISCUSSION (13)

Nothing > Textured Soy Protein
07/17/2014 at 13:08

They just did the same to a major road near my nieghborhood. I am surprised they used chip seal on such a high traffic road.

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > Textured Soy Protein
07/17/2014 at 13:23

they do it all the time around here in Michigan too, it's a pain in the ass and it's not a real solution, they just have to keep fixing them.

2222222222212 > Textured Soy Protein
07/17/2014 at 13:26

Madison, WI? Which intersection is this?

thebigbossyboss > Textured Soy Protein
07/17/2014 at 13:32

Ugh. I got some sticky asphalt bits on my car too.

Textured Soy Protein > 2222222222212
07/17/2014 at 13:32

I blurred out the street signs for a reason. ;)

Textured Soy Protein > MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner
07/17/2014 at 13:35

I think it works halfway decently on residential streets. The last place I lived where they had done the chip seal, it was sometime between '08-'09, and that street is still pretty smooth.

It's just super annoying to have sticky gravel getting kicked up onto your car for the first few months after they put down the stuff.

2222222222212 > Textured Soy Protein
07/17/2014 at 13:40

Fine, I'll find it on Google Maps.

Dr_Watson > Textured Soy Protein
07/17/2014 at 13:42

wtf? NY at least rolls it so the gravel stays put.

ly2v8-Brian > Textured Soy Protein
07/17/2014 at 13:56

I hate that crap.

Textured Soy Protein > Dr_Watson
07/17/2014 at 14:04

Here they roll over it a little...but not enough to prevent mass quantities of loose gravel.

Textured Soy Protein > 2222222222212
07/17/2014 at 14:13

Dear internet person whom I do not know but is strangely fixated on finding out the street corner close to where I live:

While I'm sure you or any other person could locate this intersection with enough time spent zooming around Google Street View, I hope you understand why I might want to avoid broadcasting my precise location to the internet at large.

Thank you.

2222222222212 > Textured Soy Protein
07/17/2014 at 14:23

Oh. No worries, I'm just a maps junkie - and former resident of Madison. Curiosity is all thats at play here. I'm looking at expanding neighborhoods since I was there. This looked like an active expansion. I'm not trying to out your location. Besides, I could never get an address from this pic. You could be any distance from here.

Couldn't find it in the 10 minutes I alotted myself anyway..

Meatcoma > Textured Soy Protein
07/17/2014 at 16:08

Love how cities/states can use this as an excuse to dump waste oil and the EPA does nothing.