'Tis the road construction season, and bleh.

[kyrielle]

We live on a dead-end road in a tiny neighborhood. We have two routes out to the main street - and no other routes out at all. Our best route is to follow our road to the street. Our second best meanders through the rest of the neighborhood.

Hang on, a visual:



So. We live where it says "Us" and you can see it's a fairly dense neighborhood (I didn't label the apartments and condominiums not off our street, but you can find them if you look).

The blue line? They are extending another street to meet ours. (Actually, it will *become* the street there and ours will T into it, but close enough.) Which means that for 6-8 weeks, the red section will be closed.

Fun times! Now we have only one route out - meandering through the neighborhood.

But, yesterday and today, there is additional construction work at the orange corner (between us and the rest of the neighborhood), so we have to wait for a flagger to get through.

And even better, also yesterday/today, the senior center closest to the red line is having their PARKING LOT resurfaced...so all the cars are street parked.

I don't see how the garbage truck could make it in or out today, it literally could not fit. (Maybe by Monday it'll be better? I hope? That's when they actually come for the houses, though the senior centers and apartments have their own pickup schedule....) It's amazingly ridiculous.

I can live (not without some whining, I suspect) with the 6-8 weeks of meandering. But the "I have a channel home that is at times barely as wide as my car" part is getting pretty stressful. :P

Comments

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

Bweh. Sympathies. And even if you could easily trade for a wee bitty car or a single-track vehicle for a while, you can't because you have smalls. Consider yourself hugged... and may the project come in ahead of schedule.

[kyrielle]

Fingers crossed, and thank you! The orange corner isn't posted as an ongoing thing, but I assume there will be more there since it presently has a steel plate over one part. Still, I think it'll be clear for most of the 6-8 weeks.

When it's done, there will be a traffic light where the red line meets the main road, so it's not all bad. Inconvenient, but that's life.