Road work, update
We live on a corner. It's fairly busy - where the through traffic must turn to continue to the beach road. It's the Fire Truck's route. Now, it's nothing but a big hole. Local traffic only on our block.
The upgrade to the side street has progressed to putting in the ramps at the corners for the sidewalks, and they have torn up the actual street for about 10-15 feet beyond the cross street in both directions. Charlie and I spoke with one of the supervisors yesterday and he said that they were going to re-grade the street on the other side. Someone finally acknowledged the scrapes in the pavement from people bouncing across the crown and ditch of the cross street. Cars would actually be air-born if they were going too fast. It's going to take them at least a week to open the intersection and the final pavement on the cross street won't be done until sometime after Christmas.
The impact on us has not been as bad as it has to our neighbors behind us who actually face the cross street. Their driveway aprons were replaced and the street has about one lane of actual pavement down the middle and the rest is gravel and fill where they have re-graded it. Our back corner was where they dumped all the old pavement until the haul trucks could get it. They've put down straw mats in what used to be grass, but I can see lumps of concrete and blacktop through it. The first few lawn mowings next spring should be quite interesting! Oh, and the porta-john is back in our corner. Lovely. It's a good thing that they started the week AFTER War of the Wings - the trailer is trapped in the back yard.
The upgrade to the side street has progressed to putting in the ramps at the corners for the sidewalks, and they have torn up the actual street for about 10-15 feet beyond the cross street in both directions. Charlie and I spoke with one of the supervisors yesterday and he said that they were going to re-grade the street on the other side. Someone finally acknowledged the scrapes in the pavement from people bouncing across the crown and ditch of the cross street. Cars would actually be air-born if they were going too fast. It's going to take them at least a week to open the intersection and the final pavement on the cross street won't be done until sometime after Christmas.
The impact on us has not been as bad as it has to our neighbors behind us who actually face the cross street. Their driveway aprons were replaced and the street has about one lane of actual pavement down the middle and the rest is gravel and fill where they have re-graded it. Our back corner was where they dumped all the old pavement until the haul trucks could get it. They've put down straw mats in what used to be grass, but I can see lumps of concrete and blacktop through it. The first few lawn mowings next spring should be quite interesting! Oh, and the porta-john is back in our corner. Lovely. It's a good thing that they started the week AFTER War of the Wings - the trailer is trapped in the back yard.