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Video of bitumen road being laid in Aussie out back goes viral
- Published_at:2017-01-10
- Category:Autos & Vehicles
- Channel:World News Today THU
- tags: Moora Shire Council posts viral footage bitumen laid dirt road Viral videos hot d19 youtube mo vlogs sunny leonie hot videos Australian Road Building Australian Road Building Road Building Australian Road australian construction
- description: Video of a bitumen road being laid in the Aussie out back goes viral. Have you ever seen how a road is bituminised? Finishing touches were recently accomplished on the $443,000 upgrade to Airstrip Road. Funded through Roads to Recovery Funding Program. A great job by our road works crew and Trevor Longman with the Shires drone for the footage. Tiny outback town with population of 2,000 becomes an internet sensation overnight after 14 MILLION people view its oddly satisfying video of trucks laying bitumen Tiny outback town posted footage of bitumen being laid to its Facebook page In less than a month 14 million people had viewed the oddly satisfying video Moora Shire Council is a town north of Perth with a population of under 2,000 A tiny town in outback Australia with a population of under 2,000 saw its humble Facebook page blow up overnight after posting a video of trucks laying bitumen. Moora Shire Council, a tiny outback town 177 kilometres north of Perth, posted the oddly satisfying footage of the highway being made in mid-December. In less than a month their page following had skyrocketed to 58,000 and more than 14 million people had viewed the viral video, shot from above with a drone. Scroll down for video Footage of bitumen being laid along a dusty road in a town in outback Australia has gone viral +4 Footage of bitumen being laid along a dusty road in a town in outback Australia has gone viral Moora Shire, 177 kilometres north of Perth, posted the satisfying video to their Facebook +4 Moora Shire, 177 kilometres north of Perth, posted the satisfying video to their Facebook Alan Leeson, the shire's chief executive, was initially convinced the page had been hacked when he first saw the view count. 'We thought, "Oh we've been hacked", but it's all been checked out,' he told WA Today. 'I suggested we film the work because a lot of people don't have a perspective about how roads are bituminised... we thought it was be a good opportunity to show what we do. 'We sped the video up... the original goes for about 15 minutes.' The overhead footage captures the moment a dusty red road is transformed into an even strip of bitumen, or asphalt, as a truck lays down an even base. Another truck follows with a load of rocks to cover the smooth, black surface. The team took two days to lay almost five kilometres of bitumen along Airstrip Road as part of a $443,000 government initiative. In less than a month over 14 million people have viewed the video and 363,000 have shared it +4 In less than a month over 14 million people have viewed the video and 363,000 have shared it Moora has a town population of less than 2,000 (pictured is the town's only pub) +4
| ranked in date | views | likes | Comments | ranked in country (#position) |
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| 2017-01-13 | 65,366 | 53 | 14 |
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| 2017-01-14 | 184,141 | 210 | 40 |
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| 2017-01-15 | 266,701 | 408 | 24 |
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| 2017-01-16 | 326,640 | 529 | 45 |
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