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Build or Destroy Road?

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By DannyMoxPublished 2 years ago 5 min read
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 In real life, it is often not easy to do a good job, destroy a simple thing. Put this reason into the road repair and destruction of the road is actually more appropriate.

  A few years ago, I went to a certain place to go to the countryside, through a rural road, coinciding with the road repair. Bulldozers with thick black smoke, a deafening roar, in a piece of the old tarmac eradication. There was no construction notice on the road, no personnel to guide traffic. Passing vehicles stop and go, and sometimes the backlog in a piece of half a day can not move. That day, walking can be described as a difficult step. Weekday less than an hour's drive, stop and go with three or four hours. Later I heard that the day I passed, is the first day of the road, the old road demolition is very fast, with only two days, after the road repair team but no trace, the road was idle for nearly six months. It is said that because of the delay in the payment of the project can not be allocated. Since then, the road is dusty on sunny days, hidden from the sun; muddy on rainy days, it is difficult to walk. The people along the road are suffering and complaining. Said the original road although some dilapidated, but not to affect the passage, but now it is good, the road is not repaired but to the destruction. Some people reflect to the government, the response is to task the relevant departments to investigate the handling. Many people are puzzled, since you do not have the money to repair, that first put it can not? Why do you want to destroy it first?

  No coincidence, is also one day to go to the countryside, the way a village road when people regret. The village road was repaired in less than three months, and spacious and flat, the tarred road surface is dark, winding along the high beams, like a long black dragon hovering in the mountains and fields. This is such a road, the right side of a meter wide place there is a clear collapse, the road color is different, like a scar stretched more than ten kilometers. Why is it like this? Asked the reason, said the road was completed less than a month, the water and electricity department in the repair of the water mains dug. Fellow travelers expressed confusion, the two departments in the implementation of their own projects, no communication in advance? The answer is that the road when the water project is not in place, and so the water project in place when the road has been repaired. In this way, a good road has become a scarred road.

  A few days ago, I was in the residential district streets in the upgrade, the original concrete pavement to be changed to tarmac, sidewalks on the old tiles to be replaced with new, precast concrete old road teeth to be replaced with imitation marble. This would have been a good thing, but since the construction, the surrounding stores and residents are not happy. Because to build a new one must be demolished the old one. So, within a few days the sidewalk tiles were removed, some were pulled away on the spot, and some were placed horizontally and vertically on the road. From then on, it became very difficult to walk on the sidewalk, not bumping, you have to go around here and there. The sidewalk can not, then take the street it. The street surface was also shoveled away a layer, the road surface is no longer flat, the road teeth were removed and piled up in pieces on the side of the street. The street was originally a parking zone, the original vehicles have nowhere to park, and the road teeth away from a distance to continue to park. Originally two cars can easily meet the road, now only allow a car through, the opposite side of a car, two cars to avoid for a while. Such streets are dangerous to walk.

  On the contrary, the construction of the street, the old street demolition fire speed, while the new construction is turtle speed. The workers on the street are always "the dragon's head is missing". Often a few people are scattered around, occasionally see them, but also zero knocking, unhurried, slowly and leisurely. So a month passed before waiting for the paving, but the sidewalk is still a mess. During the period I heard that because of road repair traffic accidents increased significantly, vehicle scraping and scraping become a common thing. What's more, an old man in a community to send his grandson to school in the early morning, due to darkness, did not see the foot, fell into the pipe pit, stitches in the head several stitches, almost killed. I can't imagine that a small city street renovation has caused so much trouble.

  Now, no matter where you go, traffic jams have become a commonplace phenomenon. One of the reasons for this is not only the increase in vehicles, narrow roads and other common causes. The unexpected factor is also no more than the occurrence of traffic accidents. But more often than not, it is because a section of a road is under repair. Approaching the maintenance office, you will often see that the road repair is slowly and methodically doing their work, behind the pressure of a huge long line of cars. From this, I also summed up a pattern, these years the road repair are particularly "capricious", never consider the pedestrian and vehicle travel during the road repair, often: I repair my, you go your. Such construction, to put it mildly is not standardized, to put it seriously is not civilized, is barbaric. Reflects the level of the construction unit, reflecting the professional quality of the builder. We often advocate civilization, in advocating people-oriented. Now the repair of the road, is not to do civilized, not to reflect the people-oriented.

  Road repair, the starting point is for the smooth access to the road, the ultimate goal is to better protect the pedestrian and vehicle travel. If that day, in the construction process of road repair for pedestrians and vehicles to think more, repairing the road at the same time does not seriously affect the travel, not to cause some unnecessary trouble and distress around, then we have taken a big step forward to civilization.

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