Laying fresh pavement? You should be so lucky.
Down our way it's being unlayed...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-56268078
I’m neither English nor American.
Is the OP English of American?
Pavement in the US is what is called road-surface in the UK. Pavement in the UK is sidewalk in the US.
As for road surfaces here, apart from bitumen (tar) and chippings, they are mostly made from bitumen concrete (asphalt died-out MANY moons ago).
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If the stones were cheaper, it would be white with little bits of dark stuff?Maybe the stones are cheaper than the dark stuff?
Could be neither.I was going to ask - "Is the OP speaking English English of American English?", but just could not be arsed.
In the UK it is carriageway and footway. The term pavement applies to both. Surface course of carriageway can be hot rolled asphalt (HRA)
I was reminded of the fuit pulp in a yoghurt analogy. Fruit pulp is cheaper than yoghurt, so "even more fruit" really means "even less toghurt".If the stones were cheaper, it would be white with little bits of dark stuff?
99.99% of people in the UK that learnt English here, call the footpath bit of a made road, a pavement. The 0.01% of people working in the construction industy may well call it something different.
The mix of crushed stone and bitumen is actually bitumen concrete, again, anyone can actually call it anything they like.
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