For instance, it provides asphalt and road surfacing services for the Highways Agency trunk road network and it picks up rubble from demolition jobs.

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Potholes are formed by water seeping through cracks in the asphalt surface of a road.

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The other four options include variations on replacing the road surface with asphalt, raising the kerbs, the installation of guard rails and the restoration of two lanes of traffic each way.

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Nibbling at the edges of the asphalt, the river pressed the road against red cliffs so that at times the rock faces seemed to scrape the windows.

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It turns especially treacherous during the rainy season (December to March), when the lack of asphalt or concrete paving leads the road to become impassable in many spots.

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Potholes form when water seeps into cracks in the road and freezes, breaking up the asphalt.

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Secretaries in offices rushed to windows, storekeepers abandoned their cash registers and hurried outdoors, road workers in orange hard hats looked up from the asphalt, shaded their eyes.

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In one place, the road leading to the point crosses a causeway barely wider than the asphalt.

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