I had a laugh today when a coworker showed me the front page of today’s Herald-Leader: apparently, Lexington had a lawsuit filed against it by some business owners because of construction on one of the main roads in town. The construction blocks off a long strip of the street and apparently a few delivery trucks were turned away and access was blocked to the businesses, even though before work started our government said one lane would be open for deliveries and pedestrian customers. I’m dubious that all the work will amount to much; seems like every time the city blocks off some chunk of road for maintenance, the only thing that changes is that a few heavy steel plates are added to cover the holes created, and they’re loud as hell to drive over. What irks me is when they close down one of the major roads during my morning or evening commute, right when traffic is heaviest. You’d think such occurrences would be few and far between, but not in Las Lex Vegas. Here, they close down roads and block lanes of traffic faster than you can pass a car with Ohio plates on New Circle Road.
Three till Seven
Programming, espresso, and grumbling.
You need to go up to Pittsburgh. All the roads around the city are in a constant state of construction. You can barely drive anywhere without either dealing with lane closing or detours.
From what I heard, the work that they are doing on Limestone is to put the power lines underground. They’re also supposed to be putting in wider sidewalks, more benches on the sidewalks, and creating space for more businesses. This is all in preparation for the 2010 World Equestrian Games. it’s supposed to be done by then, but we all know how those projects turn out. Centre Point is a great example.