Showing posts with label Construction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Construction. Show all posts

Sunday, March 28, 2010

Let's Demolish The Bridge While Standing On It

Unknown Mami

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Today, I'll highlight a frequent sight in my city, the ever improving St. Louis Missouri - highway construction.  I think it's a standard joke with any large town that road construction is a constant project, it certainly is around here.

This was a few weeks ago.  I remember news warnings that the Arsenal Avenue bridge over hwy 44 was going to come down AFTER I'm on hwy 44.  We passed under it on our way to our destination and it looked rather frightful with big machines hammering away and significant chunks of cement falling on the road RIGHT NEXT TO US.  Of course I take the same route home, like a dipshit, forgetting the major chunks of cement.  I could have easily taken any of the gillion side roads home, but no, I take the way I came.  And got stuck in traffic.  Because the road crew finally became concerned about the possibility of damaging passing traffic.  Brilliant guys, those road crew dudes.  Or maybe it's their supervisors?  Who knows?

So as I sat and sat and sat, I pulled out my handy dandy camera that I bought for its size for fitting in my purse for JUST THIS TYPE OF OCCASION!  Lucky me!