Infrastructure Repair in Action

Two days ago, I was bemoaning the fact that there was a lot of talk about what was going to happen in the recovery and not enough evidence of anything actually happening. Well, I woke up this morning to the sound of beep-beep-beeps, the smell of diesel and the unmistakable chatter of a work crew digging up the street in front of my house.

Their job was to fix our block’s little “speed bump,” a sunken area of the road that often proved to be quite damaging to guys and gals who cruised down the street too fast and not paying attention. All hours of the night, homeowners on our block would delight at the sound of some speeder’s front end grinding down on the asphalt, a penance for going too fast down Pacific.

On a few occasions, we even had pieces of vehicles fly off as a result of the penalty. Other times we had “stoppers,” folks who would have to stop the car and get out after a particularly nasty experience just too make sure they didn’t lose a bumper or ground effect.

I never even thought about calling the Sewage and Water Board about our little speed bump because I knew it helped make the block a safer place.

Then today I wake up to see progress. Infrastructure repairs indeed. It aint much but we have to start somewhere right? And it only took them, well, I don’t know because it has been there since I moved to the block.