Projects can be closed down and jobs lost in the space of a few months, pushing people who had been employed back into tarmacking or into the informal economy of petty trading, selling sodas, or peddling bicycle taxis.
On the highway, two leather-clad and goggled motorcyclists appeared, zooming through the jagged shadows on the tarmac, shrinking into the distance until they disappeared entirely.
In 1999, Tarmac split into two as it created a separate company focused on support services and construction, which was Carillion.
Then the tarmac turned into a bumpy dirt road edged by rubber plantations; this is the way to Wa Thin Ka.
In the end Karadžić did guarantee access to the camps, even giving us an escort whose role was to limit what we saw in the first camp, Omarska, to a minimum: men, some skeletal, drilled across a Tarmac yard into a canteen where they gulped watery soup like famished dogs.
However, the most decisive coming together came with 9km remaning when an Astana rider clipped a spectator who was looking the wrong way and around two dozen riders were sent tumbling onto the Tarmac and into the roadside ditches.
But whatever our initial exchanges with Kate, she'll always end up in the same place come the episode's final stages: on a university rooftop, ready to drop herself over the edge – into the tarmac below, and into darkness.
The group walked out onto the tarmac and climbed into the jet, and Paisley settled into a seat across from Kendal Marcy, a mellow, shaggy-haired blond from California who serves as his bandleader, aide-de-camp, and travelling companion, as well as his keyboardist, mandolinist, and banjo player.
As you ride into Pontrhydfendigaid you'll see a long section of tarmac heading up into the hills to the right.
