387-397 King St E and 6 Madison Ave | 2 & 8 fl | U/C

[tomh009]

The new pavers are different. One hopes that they will turn out to be more durable.

Cobblestones on European city streets might last the better part of a century, and that's with far more traffic on them.

Is it a salt and snow plow issue? Or is it the more rapid freeze-thaw cycles that we have here?  Do the Finns have cobblestones that last longer?

Of course, every now and then the French pull theirs up and throw them at each other.

Finns do have cobblestones, too. I think the big durability difference is that cobblestones are typically big hunks of granite, rather than the much thinner pavers we use here. The downside is that they are not as smooth or even, but for parking spaces that really should be a non-issue.