October 15, 2011
2. Newblog2011: 10/15/11 Road damage by the conglomerate
Large sections of the street on Mass. Ave. in Cambridge have been razed in the past 2 weeks; scraped so that the road is bumpy and will have to be completely tarred again, and the lines repainted. There are Caution cones and barrels in the middle of the street for blocks.
A section of Pleasant Street has also been razed, starting from where Pleasant Street begins as a side street off Mass. Ave.. The Women’s Center, a day shelter for women, is on Pleasant Street.
They razed the road now, as winter is approaching. Harassing news stations still haven’t stopped talking about rain. It did rain yesterday, and it’s going to rain more over the next few weeks until the rain turns to snow, sometimes mixed with hail.
It is an inopportune time to be razing the road, leaving an uneven surface for water to get into the pavement. Water swells when it freezes; when it gets into the pavement and then freezes, that’s how you get bumps and potholes.
A couple of days ago, I also saw vehicles in Boston, making more large, rectangular holes in the pavement of streets that were still downtown, even though those streets weren’t immediately near Copley Square.
I think that the Cambridge and Boston affiliates of the conglomerate need to repair the damage that they’ve done as soon as possible and then stop doing unnecessary damage. They shouldn’t have razed streets or put holes in them, but, now that they’ve done that, they need to fix it, preferably overnight so that as little traffic as possible gets diverted, and then they need to stop creating these problems.
Copyright L. Kochman, October 15, 2011 @ 11:33 a.m.
2. Newblog2011: 10/15/11 Road damage by the conglomerate
Large sections of the street on Mass. Ave. in Cambridge have been razed in the past 2 weeks; scraped so that the road is bumpy and will have to be completely tarred again, and the lines repainted. There are Caution cones and barrels in the middle of the street for blocks.
A section of Pleasant Street has also been razed, starting from where Pleasant Street begins as a side street off Mass. Ave.. The Women’s Center, a day shelter for women, is on Pleasant Street.
They razed the road now, as winter is approaching. Harassing news stations still haven’t stopped talking about rain. It did rain yesterday, and it’s going to rain more over the next few weeks until the rain turns to snow, sometimes mixed with hail.
It is an inopportune time to be razing the road, leaving an uneven surface for water to get into the pavement. Water swells when it freezes; when it gets into the pavement and then freezes, that’s how you get bumps and potholes.
A couple of days ago, I also saw vehicles in Boston, making more large, rectangular holes in the pavement of streets that were still downtown, even though those streets weren’t immediately near Copley Square.
I think that the Cambridge and Boston affiliates of the conglomerate need to repair the damage that they’ve done as soon as possible and then stop doing unnecessary damage. They shouldn’t have razed streets or put holes in them, but, now that they’ve done that, they need to fix it, preferably overnight so that as little traffic as possible gets diverted, and then they need to stop creating these problems.
Copyright L. Kochman, October 15, 2011 @ 11:33 a.m.