While driving up Hwy 7 (Central Ontario Route of the Trans-Canada Hwy) today between Havelock and Ottawa I encountered several long overdue reconstruction and rehabilitation projects including the Miller Group’s cold in-place (CIP) asphalt recycling train. This technology – first successfully introduced in Canada in 1989 (Region of Ottawa-Carleton; Regional Road 3) by Miller Paving – has since been supplemented over the last few years by new in-place processes (i.e. foamed asphalt, deep CIP, etc.) that are at the leading edge of pavement rehabilitation strategies.
For the last 20 years in Ontario the MTO, Municipalities and the private sector have collaborated on many successful large scale ‘green’ road projects. It’s nice to know that we continue to lead the world in new road maintenance technologies. A GreenBiz.com blog post -The Importance of Green Roads – states that the time is now “for decision makers to embrace a new way to design, plan, build and maintain their road infrastructure, consistent with green road building practices, leveraging new technologies and know-how, and preparing their countries to take a leadership role in environmental stewardship and infrastructure development”.
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CentreLine: While many world road authorities are innovating now, Ontario Municipalities have been ‘green’ road rehabilitation and construction leaders for several decades.