{"id":503,"date":"2009-01-15T14:30:38","date_gmt":"2009-01-15T21:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/?p=503"},"modified":"2012-07-07T20:47:05","modified_gmt":"2012-07-08T02:47:05","slug":"a-road-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/a-road-show\/","title":{"rendered":"A Road Show"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I don\u2019t know why this lane needs to be repaved, but they are working very diligently at it.\u00a0 Maybe it is because they just repaved our lane (due to utility work), which is perpendicular to it, being located just under the window that you are looking out in the above photo.\u00a0 What ever the reason, their efforts are very impressive on several levels.
\nFirst of all, the little bulldozers are being handled with such energetic coordination that it is like watching a well coordinated dance.\u00a0 They move back and forth, digging and scraping, never seeming to even pause to make sure that they don\u2019t hit each other or anything, yet skimming neatly through all the tight spaces.\u00a0 All of the old asphalt is being loaded into a very long truck which is sandwiched into our lane.\u00a0 I have not seen it drive in or out, so am mystified as to how they get it in there with my building still standing.\u00a0 To fully appreciate my perspective, you must know that the turn into either of these lanes is tighter than the T intersection you see here; and there are power poles that make it difficult for small cars to maneuver.\u00a0 The photo does not give the same sense of limited space that we see when viewing it in person.<\/p>\n

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The highlight of the show is when the forklift moves the parked cars around.\u00a0 Apparently they don\u2019t attempt to notify people not to park on the street, or, if they do, they don\u2019t tow and ticket if the car owner can\u2019t find another place to park.\u00a0 They simply have a forklift working full time relocating the vehicles as needed.\u00a0 Once placed, it is impossible to tell which cars were parked by the forklift, it is all done so neatly.<\/p>\n

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Traffic, both vehicular and pedestrian, continues all around the work, right up to the boundaries of where the machines are at any given moment.\u00a0 Jesse witnessed a green van making its way UNDER the car being held up by the forklift.\u00a0 The long truck was right in front of our front gate at one point, only allowing about 2 feet of width for exiting.\u00a0 The road workers have seemed polite about everyone\u2019s movements.\u00a0 The residents appear to hardly notice the difference in the landscape.
\nI find that I am getting quite comfortable with all of the closeness.\u00a0 When I get home, I\u2019ll probably get in trouble for walking through construction zones or standing too close to people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don\u2019t know why this lane needs to be repaved, but they are working very diligently at it.\u00a0 Maybe it is because they just repaved our lane (due to utility work), which is perpendicular to it, being located just under the window that you are looking out in the above photo.\u00a0 What ever the reason, […]<\/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\/503"}],"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=503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}