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Why do you have tarmac roads?

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If we didn't have Tarmac roads the roads would be bumpy and dusty, the dust would go in to the air and cause people to cough and could cause crashes. The inventor of Tarmac is Edgar Hooley he invented Tarmac in 1902. Tarmac is heated and then poured on to road.

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