Recent road construction stuff

11-18-11
Forms were set out this morning to make the sidewalk where our driveway is.

These three were taken by Fran later in the day.

11-19-11
We now have a sidewalk where our driveway is. No driveway yet, but they are making progress.

The pavers they are using instead of concrete or blacktop to make our road.

Empty paver pallets.

A tag I saw on the ground. Probably came from one of the pallets of pavers.

11-21-11
Fran took this picture of the end of our driveway. They removed the sidewalk forms and put in the gravel bed to prepare for the blacktop.

11-22-11


11-23-11


11-24-11
Pictures taken on our walk this morning. They blocked the road right next to pur driveway.

Just up the road, maybe 200 feet.

In case the road crew gets thirsty I guess.

A wonderful piece of technology.

I have noticed several places where pavers that are chipped have been installed. I wonder if they will replace them or not.

The machine they use to set a whole layer of pavers at one time. It is hydraulically operated and appears to just squeeze the pavers together as it sets them in place. I took a look at a couple of th open pallets and there is no mesh holding them together as I suspected there might be.

Empty paver pallets stacked up at the west end of the construction zone.