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April 18, 2007
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Longtime readers may remember when our street was used as a detour for a major street nearby, detailed in some of the entries from when we first moved in. That lasted for about five months while they basically moved that main thoroughfare underground into a tunnel. After they finished that, the tunnel opened and we were back to living in a quiet residential neighborhood.
When we returned from Texas, we found that we were again on a detour route, and this time, they are allowing buses on the detour. The incredible number of cars was bad enough, but the buses are loud and dirty. I was already complaining that it's the dry and dusty season here, requiring the place to be dusted, swept and mopped a lot more often, but now, with the unregulated exhaust of the buses, it's ridiculous. And the buses start running early.
Usually, we will be notified in advance when they're going to re-route traffic through here, but this time, we were taken by surprise. It was further confusing as to why they didn't do the necessary planning in advance to reroute the buses on major streets instead of through our little dinky residential ones. We learned last night why, from our ever-informative neighbor, Alberto.
It seems that when they put the tunnel in, they somehow forgot to put in necessary plumbing or drainage. Realizing this after they fact, they had to come up with a fast plan to rip out the existing stuff and put it in again, this time with plumbing.
The rumor is that we'll be stuck with it like this for the next three months.
Posted by crispy at April 18, 2007 08:33 PM