While the title was the name of the great engineering project that took place at Boston, to make place for better infrastructure and living standards, it is used here in an altogether opposite sense…
People are always digging up roads here.
And while I take it for granted almost every time, today is different. They are redoing the storm water drains, rather the pity excuse for one: those small one foot wide, one meter deep concrete thingies that run on both sides of most roads. Maybe a wake up call from 7/26, but anyway.
In this redoing process, they are blowing away all forms of stuff that people have built over the drains, including pathways and access roads to the building compounds, in the name of improving the gutter by increasing the height (depth?) and reconcretising it. Complete with compressed air mechanical diggers that make your head explode.
The sad part is that, while they will be restoring said access ways, I am not sure of their commitment.
My apartment complex has (designer?) tiles on the access way. And the builder had some divine intervention, so he built them really really strong… Taking those morons over two days to dig through! And they say that they’ll be making just a standard mortar-concrete path once they are done (unless we provide them with the tiles)… And I am sure that will fall through before the next monsoon.
I mean, come on, just leave it as it is. The drain won’t help a thing. Especially if the river is already overflowing…