The Roads

I feel like I need to write this down because someday all the roads in Seward will be fixed and I will have forgotten about it completely. 

Sometime long, long ago, they began a BUNCH of road construction in Seward. For Lloyd and I it began a block north of our house when they tore up a road that needed to have some new storm sewer lines put in. This was something that needed to be done before they could start The Big Work on Highway 15, which runs north and south through town. I needed to take a different route to work.

Behold these incredibly accurate diagrams:

My new route to the CDC: south to Lincoln Street, then north to Hillcrest (that top street).

Sometime in the spring, they began the process of actually fixing Highway 15 (6th Street) and they worked on a short, two block section of Highway 15, but it was the section that led out to Walmart and I-80. The detours for that were a couple of miles in either direction, one on gravel road, and one on paved road. The town was all up in arms. If you’re bored later, you can read all about that HERE.

Once that section was done, they began to tear up one lane of Highway 15 through downtown. Around that time, they also started to work on the new water tower (a couple of blocks south of us). Lloyd and I got to see that when it was still on the ground. It was pretty cool .

Once the water tower was actually up, they closed off seventh Street a couple blocks south of us, so – one more direction that we were cut off.

Next, the Highway 15 project left one street for us to cross over on the way to work: Lincoln Street. Also, traffic on Highway 15 is Southbound Only, so I had to cross over to 5th Street.

Things were looking up, though. After several weeks, I had a workaround to get home:drive west on Hillcrest, cross Highway 15/6th St, south on the newly-opened 8th St. to Lincoln St., east to 7th, and then north to my house! Woo-hoo!

Two weeks ago …… they blocked Hillcrest so they could install some water mains .

I am beginning to feel personally attacked. 

On Friday I came home to a flyer stuck in the door. The city is hosting a meeting Monday night, and we are definitely going. I joke about what an inconvenience this is for us, but the people at the corner of 7th and Park Avenue have not been able to access their driveways for months – they are parking a block away and walking. I hope the city will have some compensation for them.

On the upside? My street is very, very quiet now. Cats sleep on the road. (That will have to change…)