Thursday, October 06, 2005
Road Repairs
A couple months ago the local community had their main road "fixed." I use quotes, because the fixing, to me anyway, left a lot to be desired. They laid down some tar and covered it with loose stone, leaving the packing to traffic. It's lumpy and rough. There are places where people skidded (accidently or otherwise) and left gouges in the road. While I didn't hear too many complaints about this road, in the past there's routinely been a lot of complaints of broken windows and bodypaint chips from flying rocks. They don't block traffic from all the loose stuff, on the contrary, the count on traffic to pack it down.
Well, this week they're digging up a major portion of it to install something. There's a couple blocks of single traffic with about a block long stretch with holes you could literally drive a car into. I have no idea what they're putting in (or taking out for that matter) but couldn't they have done that a month ago before they "fixed" the road?
One other thing is that one entrance to the parking lot for our company leads into the single lane portion with no signs or anything warning about what is going on. The first night this was going on, I ended up pulling into a single lane against the traffic flow. I'm real glad they have wide shoulder on that part of the road. All in all, another example of good urban planning.
