{"id":380,"date":"2008-12-10T09:44:46","date_gmt":"2008-12-10T16:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/?p=380"},"modified":"2012-07-07T20:49:10","modified_gmt":"2012-07-08T02:49:10","slug":"road-work-taipei-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/road-work-taipei-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Road Work Taipei Style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-383\" title=\"road work 1\" src=\"http:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/road-work-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"road work 1\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/road-work-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/road-work-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is what was going on just outside the gate to our apartment building today.\u00a0 Road work.\u00a0 They needed to dig up a stretch from the more major road, down through the lane.\u00a0 You can see from the photo below that they dug a few feet deep.\u00a0 When I left the building mid morning, the whole trench was open, lined with a long mound of debris.\u00a0 There was no way out without walking through the work area.\u00a0 That is our gate in the far right of the picture.\u00a0 The tractor is in front of the garage entrance.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-384\" title=\"road work 2\" src=\"http:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/road-work-2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"road work 2\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/road-work-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/road-work-2-1023x767.jpg 1023w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The pipes, we were told, were to lay more phone wires.\u00a0 But this is the amazing part &#8211; they only began this morning and they finished this evening.\u00a0 I have seen this a few times as we have wandered our regular routes in town, but I didn\u2019t fully comprehend until it happened here.\u00a0 No where in America have I seen such efficiency in road work.<\/p>\n<p>They may be moving on to the next section, but our area is cleaned up.\u00a0 Even though there may be a few fine details to fill in, Greg drove into the garage without problem.\u00a0 They were still working, too.\u00a0 No \u2018it\u2019s quitting time, I belong to a union\u2019 attitude on display.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know if they worked shifts or anything like that, since I was going on about my business during the day.\u00a0 They were, however, very agreeable to answering my questions (via my Iris) at 4:30 PM about how things were going.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-385\" title=\"road work 3\" src=\"http:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/road-work-3-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"road work 3\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/road-work-3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/road-work-3-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I haven\u2019t seen the finished product here, but I have in other places.\u00a0 The roads are all in very decent condition.\u00a0 I am definitely a fan of road work Taipei style.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is what was going on just outside the gate to our apartment building today.\u00a0 Road work.\u00a0 They needed to dig up a stretch from the more major road, down through the lane.\u00a0 You can see from the photo below that they dug a few feet deep.\u00a0 When I left the building mid morning, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}