City of Littleton
It’s not pranksters or vandals who placed toilet paper all over the streets of Littleton, Colorado, it was city workers.
The Denver Post reports that Littleton crews have used bathroom tissue to help seal up cracks along more than 120 streets.
Officials say toilet paper was applied with a paint roller over freshly laid tar used to fill asphalt cracks. The paper absorbs the oil from the tar as it dries, keeping it from sticking to pedestrian’s shoes or car and bike tires. The biodegradable paper will break down and be gone in a few days.
Littleton spokeswoman Kelli Narde says the toilet paper allows traffic to retake the road more quickly.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
When the paper breaks down and gone, is the oil not still there??
Of course it is, the road is made out of oil, the paper just helps keep it from sticking to shoes and tires until it soaks in and becomes part of the existing asphalt.
There is only a short time that the oil is nasty sticky.
This is sun and temp related. Once skimmed over
it stays on the road and not on your tires. It seems that
the paper helps this drying/skimming process.
Sounds like some Littleton workers are thinkers.
This is nothing new. It’s been used in Wisconsin for years. Very effectively too. By the time the toilet paper is gone, the tar has set up so it’s not being tracked anywhere.
Where? I never saw any.
wow so u think we are lying?
congrates to whom ever was thinking out of the box on this solution.
you deserve a bonus .
i’m sure homeowners apreciate the efforts.
This is a sh __ity way to fix a street.
So what is ur idea?
This one is just too ripe to not have a lot of corny comments.
Hey, if toilet paper works, go for it. The alternative would be sanding or using gravel. Somebody was thinking.