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Originally Posted by Bruno
It's very common on roads here regardless of how they were laid, as of course we have a lot of frost heave even in the south of Canada (the Pingos are in our far north).
It's not unheard of for a freshly laid road to last a year before developing some crazy cracks and a whole bumper crop of potholes, if we have a bad freeze-thaw cycle.
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The issue is so pronounced, that some parts of the Parks Highway (in Alaska) have been fitted with the same kind of cooler as is used on the pipeline.
The type is the same as in this article:
https://www.arcticfoundations.com/in...-cold-climates