Road up... aaaargh!

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Wed 4 Feb 2009 16:02
Road up... aaaargh! - Lud
The water mains replacement operation which has been causing traffic chaos in my manor for the past year has now reached my block. So no parking outside and half the road caged off. At least we will be spared the droning idling traffic, sometimes hooting impatiently, waiting for the temporary traffic lights day and night when they were in the next block...

But now there's a large yellow tractor thing pecking holes in the road up and down the block with a nasty steel beak, Guguguguguguguguguguh very very loudly, on and on. It's all very well for the bloke working it: he's got ear muffs. Up on the second floor though...

After the pecker will come the digger/scooper thing which is also far from silent. They'll be there till Friday at least. Then move on so we get the stuff waiting for the temporary lights again.

At least they don't work at night. Woken up at 4 a.m. in the hotel in the middle of the main street of Maclean, New South Wales, about a month ago by the garbage men, also equipped with machines, who made an unbelievably loud clamour for more than half an hour doing I know not what. Couldn't help feeling there was a deliberate side to it.
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Wed 4 Feb 2009 17:23
Road up... aaaargh! - 1400ted
Saw a story in the paper a while back where residents had blocked a bin lorry in their cul de sac to protest about it's coming at about 5 in the morning.....it worked as well.
Here, our glass bins are emptied about 7am...great if you are having a lie-in.
Some new 'digger' noises started here this week as preparations are startingto relay the tracks on the anandoned railway at the end of my garden. The last train ran in Oct 87 and in 2 years we will have Metrolink Trams running.
Ted
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