If Only The Pavement Could Speak!

I'm thinking that if I were a user of psychedelics, my walks and bike rides around town would be a lot more interesting and much slower -- and probably embarrassing.  With the kaleidoscope of colors now spray painted on so many of our streets and sidewalks, it's like the pavement is trying to communicate with us.  Talk about distractions!  For some, it's a dream -- colors, any and all of them, are a welcome relief to the dull roughness of uninspiring concrete and asphalt.  A new canvas!  A treat for the eyes, at last!  For others, like me, all the markings make for crude, ugly, unwelcome, even confusing, sights that stick around for far too long.  Hooray, uglier concrete!  Still others don't even notice or seem to mind.

Some of what the pavement is trying to communicate to us is quite amusing, though.  And it would probably be really, really amusing while engaging in mushroom therapy! 

According to a worker for a contractor marking Warren Street with spray paint this morning, National Grid (through their contractor Mullen) might begin work on 3rd Street, from Allen Street to Prison Alley, this coming Monday.  He didn't know when the 3 blocks of Warren would be torn into, but I suspect that it won't be long after 3rd Street has begun -- likely no more than a week or two.  At this month's Common Council meeting, DPW Superintendent Robert Perry announced that he would let everyone know what National Grid's schedule is for 3rd and for Warren "when I have a schedule."  Of course, by next month's meeting, that work will already be under way.  So helpful, that Perry!

You think the intersection of Columbia, Green, and State has been a mess for weeks?  Wait 'til work comes to 3rd and to Warren!   There might be some yelling AT the pavement!