August 22, 2005

Updated...

Way back in March, I mentioned that the town my company sit in was doing some work on the streets, and lighting... I complained about the lights as they were too bright, and the island seemingly pointless...

How little I knew then... Let me explain...

Back in march, they did the island, and the lights... They had to tear up some brand new paving to do so, but the patch wasn't terrible, and I figured they were done screwing up the roads... Now, months later, I can see, that was only the beginning... Once it got hot out, the heavy equipment came back... They cut slots across the road, and all the side roads right were the crosswalks would normally be. This confused me, as the slot was only about 3/4" deep, and I know damn well that's too little for pavers or bricks, and too deep for a paint treatment... Following the slotting, new signs appeared beside the road. "Bump" they say... Strange think I as its really a dip, so obviously they were going to fill the slot with something... And so they did... A rather large truck shows up, and pours some cocktail in to the slots, which then gets stamped to look like brick pavers... They paint it all red, and then broom sand in to the grooves between the "bricks"... It looks fabulous... Too bad they can't get it flush with the damn road, which seems strange since they basically pour the crap... So now rather than getting a nice smooth road, we have "bump" signs everyplace, and our suspensions get pummeled...

And foolishly, I thought they were done...

They came back again, and chewed up big sections of the road in between the nice new "brick" sections... Back comes the truck, and the pour out more crap, and now we have beige "brick" intersections... They couldn't even get one section of "brick to be flush with the other section of "brick...
And it keeps spreading... Without a single bit of organized thought as to where they're going to grind and pour the next time...

What happens when they need to fix a pipe under this stuff?... I'll tell you... We're going to have asphalt patches in there... What happens to that stuff when a plow hits all those bumps?... How about the freeze thaw action in all the grooves? Who is going to re-paint the red sections when they fade from sun/tires/chemicals?... Who the hell decided this was a good idea?

Don't bother doing it right folks... Obviously using pavers (imagine using something called a paver for paving) just managed to elude them....

Idiots...

Posted by Backstage at August 22, 2005 02:39 PM | TrackBack
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