Archive for March 19th, 2025
The road is closed, pal
Wednesday
– photo by Mitch Waxman
Some days it seems as if every single mile of road you travel in Pittsburgh finds another construction project underway. Some of this work is being done by utility companies who are replacing old cast iron and lead pipes with modern pvc ones. There’s also large sewer upgrade projects underway, pictured below, which open up multi block long trenches and fill the street’s travel lanes with heavy equipment and trucks for weeks or months.
It’s all very inconvenient.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
If I was still back in Queens, I’d be able to tell you which politician gave the job to which contractor and what series of unions were benefiting from the projects. Alas, I’m no longer ‘wired in.’
This lack of connection has been quite intentional, by the way. I’m staying the hell out of it here as long as I can. Inevitably, somebody is going to do something stupid that affects me and I’ll have to get involved again, but I’ve really enjoyed spending the last couple of years completely disconnected and not having to be ‘politique’ with people I can’t stand.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
Twice. That’s how many times in the last 26 months I’ve been compelled to attend a governmental meeting. One was about the T service’s various construction projects (directly affects me), and the other was attending a meeting of Dormont’s Borough Council so that I could get a look at the otherwise faceless people spending my taxes. How’s about you?
Your humble narrator is reactivating and reimagining himself these days. Figuring out my next set of moves… who I’m going to pretend to be for the next few years… all that.
Tremble, as something wicked this way comes.
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