The road in front of our house is being entirely rebuilt.  It’s only one block long, but it’s not a small task.  First, there’s a bend in the middle of the road.  Second, they need to repitch the road so that the center of the road (the center being the spot between the two ends) is higher and the ends are lower.  We live at one end of the road, so the road in front of our house is dropping by 11 inches.  In order to accommodate this, the city actually has to provide us with a new, more steeply sloped driveway.

I’ve put some “before” photos below.  You can click on them to see a larger image.

In order to preserve the character of the street, no sidewalks are going in.  To do so would require taking down fences, many trees, and at least one stone wall.  However, we are getting curbs and drainage and a small number of trees apparently will be coming down.

We’re told construction will take roughly six weeks, which would have them cutting the ribbon some time around Thanksgiving.  Our driveway is likely to be dirt for four weeks, and we’ll have a day or so that we cannot use it.  We’re just looking forward to no longer having a large lake at the bottom of our driveway after each rainfall.

I’ll provide scintillating updates as we go along.