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Obsolete concrete hacked from the pavement
Ear-muffled crew pneumatic hammering
Why must they leave it till high-traffic season?
Can anyone tell me the reason?
24 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Obsolete
crispina kemp 
Not that I drive but it’s so true! Sitting on a bus for hours!
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We’ve a road between Yarmouth and Gorleston that for the past year has been one roadwork after another. But we can’t complain too much since part of the work is to improve our flood defences.
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Oh right! That makes sense!
We get sink holes sometimes. You HAVE to fix that! And sunken hydro lines have to be replaced or repaired. Not much you can do except accept it. At least they don’t ignore it.
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Well, of course, there are always those unplanned repairs required. Guess a sink hole is one such emergency!
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Especially at a cross section of roads. There was a small one in our driveway. In front of the apartment. I watched it getting deeper and deeper over time. It was finally fixed!
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Oh dear.
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I know lol
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🙂
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There’s a road, Davis Drive in Newmarket, Ontario that I swear has been under construction for the past 7 or 8 years. It is quite long and they only do it in sections but that many years is insane 🙂
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We have bridges that are under constant paint jobs 🙂
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LOL, I don’t know why they start putting signs for road repair and a year after they begin to do the job for years and it takes a year to pick up the signs and orange cones. HAHAHA
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Yea, there seems to be no logic to their routines 🙂
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LOL
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🙂
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That is a mystery.
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🙂
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I think those who work in construction – roadwork, especially – have been mandated to take the longest time for every friggen job. And of course, why not during peak tourism time? Right now would be the ideal time for them to be working the roads, no?
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To the best of my knowledge, all work has stopped on the flood defences that were causing traffic chaos in town before the lockdown. Seems you can’t dig up a road AND maintain social distance 🙂
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I dunno about that… I’ve seen them work. Seems there is always one working and three watching… 😉
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Reminds me of my school trip to Germany. They took us to see the east-west border (two parallel runs of high chain-link fencing topped with barbed wire, with watchtowers every so many meters). This being farmland, it was explained that when ploughing or sowing or harvesting, two guards would be allocated to every workman. “Oh,” pipes one of we English girls, “just like our road-workers.”
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Great question! We like good roads, but what a pain while they’re being fixed. 🙂
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And I suppose it can’t be done in the night, with less traffic about. It absolutely has to be done during peak hours. 🙂
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Those blocks are so perfect they almost look like a cartoon
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Not my photo, not responsible. Actually, I had quite some trouble fiding a photo suitable.
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It’s one of life’s great mysteries…
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Indeed… 🙂
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