The city here has ample money apparently and is tearing out sidewalks and replacing them in our vicinity. The work started an hour ago, and is a bit noisy. The sidewalks are in decent shape. They are also replacing the curbs here, which also are in decent shape. What is not in decent shape is the street's pavement, which I gather will be replaced eventually. And, they will take a 4 lane one way street and convert it into a 2 lane street, with a bike lane, on which almost no bikes will travel.
What was mainly needed was to scrape off the old pavement and repave it, problem solved. I really can't understand replacing the curbs. Jack hammers are noisy.
They also have half replaced the concrete pavement connecting our parking lot to the street. It also was in very good shape beforehand. There are parts of the sidewalk that need work here and there because of tree roots, but they are redoing all of it.
The street used to be four lanes with two going each way before they one wayed it some time in the past. So, it's four lanes wide, about to be two lanes wide. I guess we don't have a traffic issue here.....
