Blanka Bracic, a transportation engineer with The City of Calgary, will be here on Wednesday, November 3 at 10:30 a.m. (Mountain Time) to answer your questions about the Rubber Sidewalk pilot program.
Here is a related Calgary City News blog post with additional information: Rubber Sidewalks: A City Pilot Project
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
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Despite the supplier saying no offgassing will occur I find that hard to believe. I'm highly allergic to the powerful rubber wreak from other city rubber matting. I use the river walkways and bicycle paths and enjoy the smell of nature, trees, grass, and I strongly.. and logically suspect these mats will stink of rubber and absolutely ruin the enjoyment of our pathways. Will the City strictly ensure that they will reverse out of this project if the mats do indeed smell of rubber and thereby ruin pathway enjoyment with an overpowering rubber stench?
ReplyDeleteI know your concern very well. I am a research associate with Michigan University and would request you to please visit the following link
ReplyDeletehttp://dsp-psd.pwgsc.gc.ca/Collection-R/LoPBdP/BP/bp431-e.htm
for more information and were all these recycled tires have been used. I have personally met Mr. Chandra Shekhar ( from the manufacturer of these sidewalks) and we had a detailed discussion after his paper presentation on recycled tire rubber products and its ecological usage during a technology conference and presented him with some additional related documents.
I sincerely hope you will find more information in the web. My best suggestion is to take a walk or stay close to these products and feel if it is affecting you. Children and people with asthma have lived near these surfaces without any reaction.
But you know your health better than anybody so take adequate precaution. there are more VOC content in the air we breathe than in these products.
I will post more info from other studies.
Thanks for reading.
Earlier reports claimed the mats could be quickly installed. Well the contractor has been horsing around for the past 2 months with no real progress until a story about this hit the news.
ReplyDeleteWell very true. Since it is happening in our neighbourhood i was chatting with them last month and found that they were doing this for the first time and are getting used to it over a period of time. also they mentioned that they are doing few other projects at the same time hence they are slow. Maybe now they will be able to finish it much faster and give us access to use these sidewalks.
ReplyDeletePlease speed up the whole thing.
This is from Ed Wong, Development & Project Management Engineer, for Anonymous on Nov , 3:56 p.m.
ReplyDeleteAccording to the supplier, there is no off-gassing or degassing from the rubber pathway. All degassing happens when the tires are crushed into crumbs and mix with urethane to bind them. The VOC level of the product was tested by the Alberta Research Council and is found well below the permissible level for human interaction.
Thanks
This is from Ed Wong, Development & Project Management Engineer, for Anonymous on Nov 4, 2:18 p.m.
ReplyDeleteThe City/Contractor is new to the product and it takes some time to familiarize ourselves with the installation process. The contractor has other improvements to complete as well in the community and the schedule needs to be adjusted to be cost effective. The unusual high number of wet weather this summer also contributed to the delay in most of the construction projects this year.