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April 02, 2005
Los Angeles, swimming pools! Movie stars! Crappy roads!
Road crews have been tearing up some part of Burbank Boulevard the entire time I have lived in Los Angeles. And they just keep digging it up and putting big metal plates over the holes and you have to drive over this mess, and it never gets fixed or completed or paved and it's just a big old pain in the ass. I believe the Valley wants to secede from Los Angeles mostly so we can get our roads fixed, specifically Burbank Boulevard. I mean really, twelve years is LONG ENOUGH to tear up one road. Just ask anyone in the Valley.
But about four days ago, I was driving on Burbank Blvd. and noticed that OH MY GOD they had graded a whole block of roadway and PAVED half of it. Real blacktop! A paved road! (well, a paved half of block of road, but still!)
Then yesterday, I was driving that blissfull stretch of freshly paved road when I saw this:
Because you know, the first thing you want to do to a freshly paved portion of the road, especially one that is still half unpaved, is start digging up the good side and slap one of those metal plates over it and glue it down with some fresh tar. That is a GREAT idea, there, guys.
Posted by laurie at April 2, 2005 03:05 PM
Comments
It is how they justify their exsistence and feel like that have the 'power'!
Posted by: jacqueline at April 2, 2005 04:51 PM
I enjoyed reading your blog!
Posted by: chris at April 2, 2005 05:55 PM
Holy crap we're neighbors! :waves!:
They were digging up Cahuenga for TWO years and it took a further FOUR to repave it. I almost ran off the road the other night when I drove on it and didn't lose any parts of my car. I count on those violent, ominous holes to keep me awake long enough to pull into the garage.
Posted by: jenifleur at April 4, 2005 10:40 PM
I'm a neighbor too! Small world, huh? I hated driving down Burbank Blvd to Valley college. BUMP BUMP BUMP.
Posted by: Brianna at May 7, 2005 06:50 PM
