I live on a fairly wide street with normal traffic. Three lanes each way including one for parking. Including regular traffic is a scheduled city bus line. Addition to this there is a hospital behind us and ambulances go there day and night, right font of our windows.
I don't know how many water and gas lines run under our street but ever since we lived here which is about six or seven years now there are constant work being done with these lines. Not always front of us but somewhere along this street.
They dig up, replace some pipes, fill back, fix the pavement then for sure within six months it is being cut up and work begins again. That is not so bad, the problem comes when they shut of the main water line, and we are here without any water. This already happened a few times. Sometimes during the night but mostly at day times.
To make this work more interesting, they placed their portable toilet right outside our window. The whiff of this thing slowly waved its way through the air towards us. How inconsiderate and stupid these people must be not to think that a toilet should not be placed under anybody's window?
For people who go off to work this is not an issue but us, old folks who are stuck at home it is not the best scenario. That is what happening right now. The are digging up the street in several blocks, replacing some humongous water pipe and in the process shutting off the water. Our water was turned off on Saturday between 8am and 3:30pm. Uncomfortable, to say the least.
Because work was not completed there was another day without water. More nuisance.
Later on it turned out that our building's connection to the newly installed water main was a bad fit so there was another day when the landlord needed to have a new pipe installed. That meant another day without water.
On such days we were sitting in the house, doing nothing, relaxing. I was afraid to drink anything because can't even use the toilet. No water to flush.
This city is crumbling at its bases. The bridges are rusting away, the roads are cracking and barely staying up, the subway system is ancient and barely operational. The infrastructure is a disaster. And at the same time the leadership is syphoning off more and more of our monies under the pretense that it will be used for upgrading. What a lie!
This is the American way. Good country America!
Most countries in the West are declining, at least when services like roads are concerned. Improving countries? Saudi Arabia and, Qatar, UAE, bastions of human rights. There are some exceptions, like Singapore or Australia for example.
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