Further public works update

So, now that they have scraped the top layer of asphalt off of Fourth Avenue, and installed little tar ramps around all the manhole covers and gratings, and let the scraped street rest for several days, now they are cutting into the exposed road surface.

See those patterns of white lines? All of those are places where they cut into the road with a radial saw. And there are lots more of those cuts elsewhere up and down the street. And, MAN is that cutting loud -- naturally, they do this on a day when it is over 80 degrees and we all have our windows open.

I wonder if they are going to install sensors in those cuts. They previously installed the bus stop concrete pads all up Fourth, consistent with the coming "Rapid Ride" bus service -- another feature of Rapid Ride is bus lanes that get a green light when all other lanes are red, and I can imagine that sensors in the road are necessary to trigger the light to turn green for the bus.

But I didn't think Rapid Ride was going up Fourth Avenue, I though it was on First.

In the Fullness of Time, all will be revealed.

Meanwhile, I forgot to mention, they planted saplings on Third Avenue, in the holes in the new sidewalk.

Posted: Tue - June 2, 2009 at 03:20 PM

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