11-14-2014, 07:08 PM
(11-14-2014, 05:58 PM)Markster Wrote: I understand the worry about the asphalt crumbling away, and it will almost certainly happen without extensive works to improve drainage with ditches on either side of the path.
However, the simply asphalt layer is much better than what's there now, and the perfect is the enemy of the good (and the budget).
Yeah. In the same vein, holding out for a boardwalk is not really the right thing (and that would get far more icy in the winter). I was thinking about the paved path in Waterloo Park (not the gravel, which is terrible) and I suppose that the ditches help a lot there.