I don't know what they're doing between us and the kids' school building, but this...well. There's construction starting, three properties down from ours, and there's four dump-trucks of gravel piled up in the flat part next to the road across the road from us. There's a small front-loader (a bobcat) trundling back and forth every ten minutes.
School starts back up next Wednesday.
Now, normally, I have plenty of time to get to the school to pick the kids up, but...this is...yeah. Couple days ago, they had the street down to one lane. And a guy standing in the middle of the road with a slow/stop sign dealing with through traffic.
That's on the direct route--the single mile between us and school. It also blocked Travis Acres (the side street that connects our east-west street with the one a mile or so south of us). That's turning west from the driveway.
If I turn east...I can go out to the next north-south road, then up a mile, over to the other north-south road, then up and around. That would be about four or five miles, going thataway.
In other words, I can make it, and make it on time, but I may need to figure in a few more minutes in the afternoons.
Why did they pick August to start this bullshit?
I was in road construction for years. Projects are done as the contract stipulates, with some there are multiple locations, and it looks like your street drew the short straw. Another thing is that asphaltic paving products have a "season", which mandates temperatures above a certain point for placement. The hotter the better is what's most wanted, and after certain dates, such work is not allowed.
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