------------------------+------------+----------+--------- Description of Pavement.|Maintenance.|Cleansing.| Total. ------------------------+------------+----------+--------- | _s._ _d._ | _s._ _d._|_s._ _d._ Stone Pavement | 0 4·50 | 0 3·37| 0 7·87 Macadam | 0 9·25 | 0 7·31| 1 5·26 Asphalte | 0 10·20 | 0 4·17| 1 2·37 ------------------------+------------+----------+--------- The cost of maintaining macadamised roadways as compared with that of granite setts has been said to be as high as 5 to 1 and that this cost if capitalised for 12 or 13 years will equal the first expense, interest on money, and the necessary repairs for a granite paved roadway. The following table gives the cost per annum per square yard for the maintenance of macadamised roadways in different places, so far as I have been able to collect them: _s._ _d._ _s._ _d._ Bristol 4 to 1 0 Charing Cross (London) 5 0 (now paved) Exeter 6 „ 2 6 including cleansing Glasgow 8¹⁄₂ Leeds 10 „ 1 2 Liverpool 2 „ 2 6 Manchester 6 „ 1 8 Merthyr Tydfil 4¹⁄₂ Newcastle 1 3 including watering Paris 9¹⁄₄ „ 10 9 Parliament Street (London) 3 6 repairs only Regent Street (ditto) 3 7 (now paved with wood) Stockton 9 „ 1 6 Sheffield 1 8 „ 2 0 Wakefield 1 0 all paved streets now. In Birmingham the macadamised streets have worn down 6 inches in one year, with a traffic of 2484 vehicles passing in 10 hours. With reference to the great cost of maintenance in Paris, the following particulars[22] may here be given;