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NEWSLETTER
April 2002
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Surface Dressing
Motto of the Month
 Introduction

Hello again, just a few notes to let you know what is happening with the site, and a perhaps a few items that are worthy of comment I have come across in the past month.
My ISP has now moved my site across to its location on a new faster server, so I hope you are experiencing faster more reliable access to the site. When I have accessed it after uploading new content, to test it is all working, it certainly appears a lot faster to me.
There were a few initial problems but they all seem to be sorted now.
You may have noticed the page counters have gone, although quite accurate in their own way while they were working, they were not reliable and kept "falling over", an I.T. term apparently. 
My ISP is now providing me with details on how the site is performing, and I hope to provide a condensed monthly report when I have a full month of website statistics available.
I hope you notice I am continually trying to "tidy up" the appearance of the presentation of the site to make it more user friendly, and include more pictures, it seems the pictures are very popular, but perhaps you should get out more and see it all for real.
I do my best with site presentation but do not expect miracles, I am a highways maintenance "anorak", not an I.T. "anorak", but if I can take the time to find out something about the I.T. world because it is important to do so, perhaps some of you out there can allocate some time to find out about highways  maintenance. 
In practical terms highways maintenance is even more important than I.T. because without an efficient, well maintained, highway network most countries economies would be in deep trouble. We are not yet in the position where we can transport industrial items, consumer goods, (if you order them on the internet they still have to be delivered), and basic needs such as food through little wires to our homes. 
We still rely on the juggernaut and its little brothers to transport and deliver, so even as I write our roads are wearing out, so best to know how to maintain them efficiently.

Surface Dressing

Well, it is all about to happen again, (in the Northern Hemisphere) the 2002 surface dressing season that is, so I hope you are ready for it, if you have not got suitable supervisors you had better find some quick, or send some of your people on training courses, the RSDA are advertising courses at present. 

There is also a page of basic information on surface dressing on the website that will give you a basic grounding on the subject, and if you prefer a picture guide that too can be accessed on this site.

The Road Surface Dressing Association (RSDA) have their website,
at, www.rsda-gb.co.uk/

a bit of long title, but once you have it book marked you will be okay.
The site has been improved since it was first put on the web, it is well worth a visit, and you are able to order the various technical publications that RSDA produce, they are not expensive and. I believe, they are well worth having.

And if you do not have a copy of TRL : Road Note 39 - Design guide for road surface dressing to hand, why not, go and buy a copy now, the price is miniscule compared to the cost of an error in surface dressing design.

Motto of the Month

"There is an enormous amount of happiness to be found in not wanting to be the best, or have the most, or shout the loudest."

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