Road Construction
Is all over my town.
There are two ways to exit my neighborhood to the south, and two ways to the north. In both cases you have to get to the main road and head east or west on it before you can actually go north or south. About six weeks ago, one of the routes to the south (westerly) was closed for bridge repair - the most convenient one to my bank, to the closest Stop and Shop, to the closest Whole Foods, to the main Post Office. Its just a CONVENIENT way to leave my neighborhood. Closed until (at the very least) Fall.
Okay, I can still go west to go south - I just have to go alllll the way around. About ten to fifteen minutes out of my way depending on traffic (tertiary roads, highly traveled, and looping back to where you were, just on the other side of the closed bridge). Annoying but do-able.
Leaving my neighborhood the up and around way to the west, there are traffic signs indicating a traffic pattern shift starting tomorrow. Road crews are going to be doing a widening project, so traffic in that direction is going to be even worse - they expect heavy usage and major delays. I go that way ALL THE TIME. I don't want more construction happening there!
Getting out south and east is the same traffic pattern as usual, but getting IN south to the easterly direction they've put in another detour to do some sewer repair - also going to take a couple of months to complete, but totally messes with the traffic pattern in the other spot.
Going to the north east or west is still clear of construction, but getting out of the neighborhood to head towards civilization (Mass Pike and Route 9 are both *just* south of my neighborhood) is getting annoying and time consuming.
I am super happy my town is doing much-needed repairs to its roads and infrastructure (water mains, sewers, etc.) but having it all happen at the same time is a little... weird! There are like four bridges closed in my town for repair. Orange DETOUR signs are up everywhere.
On the plus side, a bunch of pot-holey roads have been repaved lately, so there is that.
On the minus side we've had two weeks of plus90 degree weather, I do not envy the construction crews working outside in this weather. This week should be marginally cooler (mid eighties instead of mid-to-high nineties). But I'm off ADVENTURING to Europe mid-week anyway.
There are two ways to exit my neighborhood to the south, and two ways to the north. In both cases you have to get to the main road and head east or west on it before you can actually go north or south. About six weeks ago, one of the routes to the south (westerly) was closed for bridge repair - the most convenient one to my bank, to the closest Stop and Shop, to the closest Whole Foods, to the main Post Office. Its just a CONVENIENT way to leave my neighborhood. Closed until (at the very least) Fall.
Okay, I can still go west to go south - I just have to go alllll the way around. About ten to fifteen minutes out of my way depending on traffic (tertiary roads, highly traveled, and looping back to where you were, just on the other side of the closed bridge). Annoying but do-able.
Leaving my neighborhood the up and around way to the west, there are traffic signs indicating a traffic pattern shift starting tomorrow. Road crews are going to be doing a widening project, so traffic in that direction is going to be even worse - they expect heavy usage and major delays. I go that way ALL THE TIME. I don't want more construction happening there!
Getting out south and east is the same traffic pattern as usual, but getting IN south to the easterly direction they've put in another detour to do some sewer repair - also going to take a couple of months to complete, but totally messes with the traffic pattern in the other spot.
Going to the north east or west is still clear of construction, but getting out of the neighborhood to head towards civilization (Mass Pike and Route 9 are both *just* south of my neighborhood) is getting annoying and time consuming.
I am super happy my town is doing much-needed repairs to its roads and infrastructure (water mains, sewers, etc.) but having it all happen at the same time is a little... weird! There are like four bridges closed in my town for repair. Orange DETOUR signs are up everywhere.
On the plus side, a bunch of pot-holey roads have been repaved lately, so there is that.
On the minus side we've had two weeks of plus90 degree weather, I do not envy the construction crews working outside in this weather. This week should be marginally cooler (mid eighties instead of mid-to-high nineties). But I'm off ADVENTURING to Europe mid-week anyway.