Dotted/Dashed lines

poppy13

Does anyone know what the dotted/dashed lines are on the intersections of Underhill? I saw a note written to replace the slate curb too.

New traffic lights? Bike lanes? Aliens? :?:

carnivore

I think I saw what you're talking about, and I was guessing it's some type of pipes or cables that need to be accessed (kind of like what they did earlier this year on Underhill between Park and Sterling and between Sterling and St Johns). By the way, has anyone else noticed what horribly cheap concrete they put down after their work? It's ugly, uneven in many places, and already starting to crack and crumble.

sweet tea

at st marks, the dotted lines run over a large section of slate paving. i suppose there's no chance they'll replace that with slate, even if they're doing the curbs.

sigh. aliens would have replaced the slate.

poppy13

Maybe a call to 311 will explain it.

Does anyone have the number for ET? I want slate back on the curbs. :-)

elitt

Subject: Re: Dotted/Dashed lines

poppy13 wrote: Does anyone know what the dotted/dashed lines are on the intersections of Underhill? I saw a note written to replace the slate curb too.

New traffic lights? Bike lanes? Aliens? :?:

Landing zones...definitely landing zones

elitt

Subject: Re: Dotted/Dashed lines

poppy13 wrote: Does anyone know what the dotted/dashed lines are on the intersections of Underhill? I saw a note written to replace the slate curb too.

New traffic lights? Bike lanes? Aliens? :?:

Has anyone learned what this is about?

poppy13

looks like they are digging up the sidewalks and roads. Funny thing is, I saw that they scribbled out some of the dotted lines and had to re-do them a few feet away. Guess someone mis-calculated.

bunnycup

I know what they are doing!! How, you ask? Well, I know because they began doing it at 7am every day last week on my block, just a few feet from where I was sweltering in the heat desperately trying to sleep in my bedroom. They are digging giant holes in the street, immersing these concrete blocks (that would make really cute Orwellian playhouses for future jumpsuited little post-apocolyptic children) you may have seen sitting around the streets, and running cables through them or some such. They are also quite busy with the waking me up from my precious sleeptime, clogging up my whole stoop, leaving cigarette butts and sandwhich wrappers all over the floor, and storing their probably-harmful chemicals in plain sight sitting unattended on the street. But progress is progress, right?

veggiequeen

they said they're replacing the gas lines... at least it's something to improve the infrastructure. they're tearing up the sidewalk/street in front of my building, too.

paraderest

I blame it all on Bruce Ratner!

jeffrey

ParadeRest wrote: I blame it all on Bruce Ratner!

Or, when in doubt...

smokin joe

it does appear to have something to do with gas lines as keyspan trucks have been out there occasionally. i have no idea beyond that though, nor can i imagine what the giant concrete blocks are for.

but oddly enough, in many of the places where they dug up sidewalk they've now refilled the holes with asphalt. i don't know if they consider this permanent but it certainly appears to be. that's not just shoddy, but also ugly as hell.

also, i don't think this is related, but a neighbor told me they're going to be putting in a speed bump on park (a.k.a. the park place expressway) between vanderbilt and underhill. that would be great.

whyfi

poppy13 wrote: looks like they are digging up the sidewalks and roads. Funny thing is, I saw that they scribbled out some of the dotted lines and had to re-do them a few feet away. Guess someone mis-calculated.

On the sidewalks, they moved them over a bit so that they could leave as many sidewalk blocks intact as possible.