Tuesday, February 26, 2019

[802] Road Works

They finally started working near our house. There's been an ongoing DPWH project since last November 2018 upgrading our drainage systems in the subdivision to prevent flooding in the lower parts. About three weeks ago construction was near the house so I thought it would keep on keeping on.

Fast forward to a few weeks later and there was nothing. The giant concrete pipes were laying in wait and so was I.

Yesterday, a holiday, my family and I went out to attend the last mass of my dad's aunt and we went to the mall after to do some stuff. I got a haircut, had lunch with Maica and Martina, and bought some car care stuff. After dropping off my folks' friend near his condo we drove home.

Lo and behold as we are getting near the house we see the backhoe one house away from ours, already almost done digging up the deep ditches to place the concrete pipes in. What a surprise! Specially considering our cars would be trapped in the garage had they started working in front of the house. So we start scrambling and moving our cars to a new place to park.

Fortunately one my good friends let us park our cars in their garage since they're not really staying in their house as often. It's a big deal since we basically only have to leave one car parked along the streets somewhere.

The last roadworks done near the house took around three weeks from start to finish, meaning they let motorists pass over the new road. So I guess we should be able to park back in our house around March 8 or so. Then once everything is done I heard they will also be fixing the other lane to balance things out I guess. The other roads done with roadwork do look bad since one side has asphalt and is higher than the newly made roads that don't have asphalt yet.

Hopefully they move faster than before because from what I've heard they only have until April to finish everything. We shall see.

Out.