I know it’s necessary. I am well aware that sewer lines need replacing, that roads need repaving and that nothing lasts forever. But do you think if they did it right the first time they wouldn’t have to do it again every year? For the past few years, without fail around the end of the summer, construction workers tear up Framingham. I’m not talking about night paving on route 9 (which is easily avoidable if you know your backstreets) my focus is on the daytime shredding on, not just the main roads, but every back street I would use to avoid the construction!
I live, on a good day, about five minutes from campus- it’s pretty much a straight shot down route 9. The other day it took me a half hour to get there. In an attempt to avoid the same construction on the way home (which I managed to do) I took a familiar back route …and ran into a whole bunch of new construction. But it wasn’t the ten minutes for the cop to notice that I needed to get around the stationary machinery, or the roughed up pavement that was doing God only knows what to the underside of my ancient vehicle, it was the men sitting on the side of the road doing absolutely nothing that sent me into a state of rage morphine could not calm me from. Once again, I am aware of things. I know manual labor isn’t an easy ride and they deserve to take a break…but it seems as though every time I drive by one of these “work” sites, these men are leisurely chewing on pieces of grass, having carefree laughs at the poor fools enclosed in their own metal traps, immobile because of them.
It just seems like frustrating situations like these could easily be avoided if these men started their work earlier in the summer, thus completing before snowfall, eliminating the need to finish hastily (and poorly) thereby resulting in next year’s fruitless endeavor.
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ReplyDeleteI don't believe that construction workers have to tear up the road every winter because they don't do it right the first time. We live in state with harsh winters and hot summers. The temperature changes cause the pavement to expand and constrict causing potholes that need constant repair. I also think that it is unfair to ask the worker to work during the day in the hot summer months. They are doing hard manual labor and to add high temperatures to this would be even more dangerous. So if we have to sit in our air-conditioned and heated cars while they work out in the elements then we should appreciate them and be able to expend the extra time that we sit in traffic.