05-06-2016, 01:03 PM
(05-06-2016, 12:18 PM)Viewfromthe42 Wrote: Previous construction that likely ran into the road(s), though possibly less intensely, might have ignored it for concern over tying up their personnel during investigations, without any/sufficient remuneration, and future opportunities that had to be foregone (or worse, booked ones that would have to be postponed with fines paid).
I saw at least one utility pipe lying very close to the surface of the corduroy road. Likely they ran into it and simply stopped digging.
Cities used to get buried overtime, about 1cm per year, between garbage, silt and repaving. Modern cities have garbage collection, no longer flood as much and current repaving techniques remove the previous layer, so we might have just recently stopped a thousands of year old historical trend.
The corduroy road is about 200 years old, so you expect to find it about 2m below surface.