> No good, I'm afraid.  "Pavement" means the hard surfacing of the road,

According to the OED that's the original sense (as in 'Roman pavement') 
but the modern sense refers to the pedestrian section only.

> Adrian

Sean

PS As a child I always used to be very sorry for the inhabitants of 
Yorkshire as the picture in my geography book showed the country was 
made up of limestone pavement! 


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