SPRING ROADS

Ahhh, spring has sprung.  

The grass is rizz(?)

now we're finding were the pot holes is.  

Not only am I a blogger, but a poet as well. So many layers of talent…

As we drive around on these beautiful spring days, isn't it great to bounce, and bang around in your car, due to the various crevices (or is it crevices?) scattered around our roadways?  It is a real life video game, trying to avoid the bunker sized holes created by our wonderful winters here in Narnia.  How will the road repair crew ever fill all the holes on our fair streets?  It seems like an impossible task, and God knows that city or county workers bust their asses… right? The shovels will get a real workout this year; not from digging but being leaned upon.  How is it that to do a job, the city or the county, needs about a dozen guys standing around whilst 1 or 2 young, inexperienced, under muscled, kids try to do a job that they have absolutely no idea how to do? Are they giving advice?  Are they making fun?  Are they giving encouragement?  I think that they are just sitting around bullshitting and hoping that the kids take forever to do the job, so they will continue to do nothing and collect an enormous pay check.  I may just be syndical but…  

Driving in the city brings even more problems other than the pot holes.  The side roads have not been graded and along the sides of most streets what only can be described as an iceberg looking for an ocean.  These icy, snaking masses of snow, extend the entire length of the street, with the only hope of melting depending on a warm July.  Nice snow removal Edmonton.  I am sure that the home owners love looking out their front window and seeing an icy mountain in front of their yard.  Don't despair, it will melt… eventually.

  Back to the pot holes.  If you are looking for a bouncy ride (instead of taking the kids to WEM and Fantasy Land) go for a trip down Wye Road, between the Salisbury Greenhouse Road and the Christian Academy, heading east.  The entire length of the road, in both lanes is one continuous pot hole.  By the time you get to the EIPS offices, you have bounced up and down and rattled around enough to believe you been on a roller coaster ride.  Be careful to not open a can of pop after traveling that route or you will have a liquid explosion inside your car. There seems to be about a month's worth of shovel leaning on that road, alone. 

And the great news is that come Thursday, we can expect 10-20 cm of snow.  Just fucking great!