And for a little while, my life gets redneckier.

[redneckgaijin]

Wednesday I noticed a portable "Road Work Ahead" sign next to my mailbox. I looked up the road and saw that the road construction which officially began late last summer, stopped for Wetober and then effectively the winter, has actually begun to move forward. In point of fact, they were stripping up the pavement on the minor highway I live on.

Thursday the "Road Work Ahead" sign was gone.

This morning it had been replaced by a "Pavement Ends" sign.

By next week, you won't have to turn off the paved road to get to my house- the paved road will done turned ITSELF off...

Comments

[dvandom.livejournal.com]

Any sign it'll get repaved, or is it being permanently converted to dirt road status?

[redneckgaijin.livejournal.com]

The mounds of gravel that have been building up gradually over the past year point to re-pavement.

Also, this is a state highway- even if only a farm-market road- and Texas isn't in the habit of leaving its highways unpaved.

[silussa.livejournal.com]

The county here is in the process of paving ALL its remaining dirt roads; they decided maintaining asphalt was cheaper in the long run.

So, yes, I would expect they will repave as well. Although the WAY they're going about it is a bit....odd. Here, they repave one side of the highway at a time, in sections.

Ripping up the asphalt completely and "ending the pavement" is just...strange.

[redneckgaijin.livejournal.com]

What county?

I live in a county with about 45,000 registered voters, in the extreme corner of the county, on a stretch of road which (besides the cluster of homes here) has three miles westward and nine miles eastward to the next occupied habitation of any kind. The county budget for maintaining its -county- roads runs less than $100,000 per year- to cover about 1500 miles of county road.

Given the above, it's damn lucky I live on the highway, which the state will pay to repave... eventually.

[silussa.livejournal.com]

Volusia, Florida.

I imagine there's a very substantial budget difference, as it's the 8th largest county (by population) in Florida.

Pavement ends

[kyllein.livejournal.com]

Does this sign look permanent, as in on a post; or is it just on a sawhorse?

Re: Pavement ends

[redneckgaijin.livejournal.com]

It -was- on a post, dug pretty deep into the ground.

This morning it's been moved.

I presume the only reason the remaining pavement isn't already gone is that today and tomorrow have a significant rain probability forecast...

(The "Recommended speed 45 m. p. h." sign is, however, on a sawhorse, and it's fallen over.)