Loading...Rubber sidewalks that allow trees to grow
Sick of seeing all those poor trees fighting a daily battle with crappy concrete, tarmac and flagstones, just to reclaim the land it found first. Make tiles of rubber that the council can cut away when needed, or better, dissolved if it senses a tree is trying its damndest to live nearby.
Still working well in Vancouver. Come on the rest of the world, catch up.
After dreaming one night about flexible sidewalks made of rubber and later seeing the interlocking rubber flooring at a health club, Richard Valeriano, who as a public works director in Santa Monica, came up with the idea of rubber sidewalks. But…
Great idea and this was a thing years ago, why then never caught on I don’t know. maybe they pollute or break easily?