Teleidoscope

Wed, Sep 19, 2007

Paving

Posted at 6:40 pm MDT to Miscellaneous

I went out to the main road to get my mail this afternoon, and decided I did not need to run any other errands after all.

They are paving the paved road that goes by the border of my little neighborhood and have it closed down to a single lane in each direction. The road gets a fair amount of traffic around rush hour, so things are backed up pretty badly.

They are using actual asphalt this time, not just a layer of oil and sand. I think it had gotten past the point where chip-sealing was going to survive the next winter. When the actual road starts cracking and crumbling in fairly long strips, it's time to get serious.

They did the part of the road near Marshall, closer to the mountains, earlier in the summer. That stretch was so full of potholes and crumbled spots it wouldn't have survived the summer without repaving, much less the winter. It's also comparatively hilly and curvy -- not by New England standards, or the Colorado mountains, but by the standards of the flatter parts of Colorado Marshall Road has a fair amount of character where it actually approaches Marshall.

Tomorrow, I need to go out to the CRUG meeting. I'll have to allow time for the paving delays.

permanent link || trackback || 0 comments || Add a comment