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The Museum
of Road Signs and Signals
and street lighting
The Village miniature
(Trooz)
Building a road
The Miniature Village's small road network was built between 1995 and 2010. A great deal of infrastructure work was needed to achieve what we have today. Since 2010, this network has been maintained on an annual basis, even down to the level of the bitumen surface.
It took the advice of an architect in the 1980s to build a solid and durable road network. We haven't kept any photos, but we remember that in Beaufays, the first two carriageways built on the ground, without any preparation of the subsoil, were destroyed as soon as the first winter frosts set in. Subsequently, all the pavements at Beaufays, and then Trooz, were built on the same principle of proper preparation of the foundations.
Red dot: the first gravel foundation. It also stabilises the subsoil.
Green arrow: layer of yellow sand mixed with cement. Once compacted, this layer is used to define the profile of the road.
Yellow arrows: layer of reinforced concrete containing scrap metal and wire mesh (blue circle). The surface layer is smoothed and shaped to give the width of the road.
Once completely dry, the concrete pavement is covered with a layer of bitumen.
Work on the first carriageway in 1995, with access to the road tunnel on the left.
2010: construction of the Second Avenue... This major construction project, which runs the length of the Village, required 1.5 tonnes of materials. The length of the carriageway meant that the work had to be phased and carried out by road sector.
Upkeep and maintenance:
All roadways are regularly monitored. There are three regional roadways and two communal roadways. In spring or autumn, two types of repairs are scheduled: to the concrete and to the bitumen surface.
Once the repairs to the pavement have been completed, new road markings are planned.
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