Around Sandy Springs -- Street Cred
You can get there from here, but I'm not sure how....
As anyone cruising through Sandy Springs will tell you, there’s a boatload of road construction going on around town. Big earth-moving machines. Orange traffic barrels and cones. Traffic being re-routed. Streets closed or re-routed. I heard they might change the city flag to a yellow safety vest.
Mind you, I’m not going off on a screed about road work. I’ve been a Sandy Springsteen so long that [insert your lame joke about my age HERE]. We need to spiff things up and re-order traffic. The city has grown nicely over the past decades. What worked back when dinosaurs roamed Roswell Road doesn’t always serve us today.
That said, if we get any more big road construction machines it’s going to look like the Transformers are taking over. We can play heavy-machinery Bingo to win valuable prizes. Is that a front-end loader, or are you just happy to see me?
All this redrawing of the avenues is playing hell with GPS units. Streets are closed. Streets that were one-way are now two-day. New streets pop up like mushrooms after a spring rain. I entered an address into my GPS last week and it flashed: “Hell if I know. You’re on your own Bunky. I got my own problems.”
I get frequent email updates from my local rep on the city council with maps of what things are going to look like after the work is done. To my attention-challenged mind it looks like someone threw a bowl of wet pasta in the air and took a photo of where it landed. But then it’s not important that I can read these plans as long as the people doing the work can.
They can, right? I mean, I do DIY projects all the time that don’t look exactly like the picture on the box, or I have parts left over. One skipped step and there’s an off-ramp to the seafood department at Whole Foods.
The only teensy fuss has to do with the scheduled completion date. Nothing ever gets done on time. There are unexpected delays. There are weather-related delays. I know they (believe) they know when something is going to be done but why put it on a sign? Just post: “When you don’t see a group of people wearing hard hats, big loud machines and plastic barrels, we’re done. If you can do it faster, by all means roll up your sleeves. And if one more person lays on their horn we’ll pack your lower g.i. system with asphalt.”