Traffic Lights Now Up and Working On Byrd Avenue and Ohio Street.

In case you have not been
to the south side of

Racine, Wisconsin
the traffic signal lights

are now up and working

on the corner of

Byrd Avenue and Ohio Street.
They started working sometime today.
The street was supposed to be done by
1 September 2008

and it is now

20 November 2008.

The company that got the bid

lost about
$11,000.00

a week
when they went past
1 September 2008.
That is about
$132,000.00
give or take.

That is a lot of money!!!!

I bet that owner is a little angry.
It is just nice to be able to
get in and out
of the driveway
and garage finally
without having to worry about
barrels and traffic.

Some More Pictures of the Ohio Street, Racine, Wisconsin Road Construction, September 2008

My mom took these somewhere between

12 September 2008 and 15 September 2008.

I do not remember exactly which day,

but I uploaded them to the computer on 15 September 2008.

I do believe she is starting to get the hang of the camera. lol

Also, I think she is starting to enjoy using the camera

knowing that I can post the pictures online

and e-mail them to people.

Road Construction Ohio Street Racine, Wisconsin 26 July 2008

The east side of Ohio Street is getting closer to be done!!!

Yay!!!

The concrete was poured for part of the sidewalk and all the driveways yesterday.

They still have to pour the corners,

but soon our side of the street will be done

and then yeppers the other side will get torn up and done.

That side probably will not take as long since there are as many driveways.

I think there are only two in the way.

P.S.

My mother took all these pictures

since I was getting ready to go to work.

I believe she is actually starting to get the hang of it and enjoying it some.

More Pictures From the Road Construction of 2008 Ohio Street July 2008

My mother took these yesterday? or friday morning.

She has the ones printed out with the exact date.

This can not be good for the sidewalk we think??!!!

I want this over with!!!!

Ok enough whining.

We just have to remember how nice it will be when it is finally finished.

More Pictures From the Road Construction of 2008 Ohio Street

These pictures were taken Wednesday, 9 July 2008.

This is in front of our house and these were taken either from the sidewalk or front yard.

This was taken between 11 p.m. and 11:30 p.m. Wednesday, 9 July 2008.

My mother took these this morning, Friday, 11 July 2008. Part of the street cracked last week when they were sawing. That part will have to be replaced.

Road Construction Ohio Street Racine, Wisconsin 2 July 2008 1 a.m. picture update

The first four pictures were taken between

1 a.m. and 1:30 a.m. yesterday, Thursday, 2 July 2008.

This poor fellow got stuck being out here all night cutting the cement.

It was very loud and I heard him a couple blocks away.

As he got closer this machine actually made the house shake.

I figure since I could not sleep I might as well take a few pictures.

The last one was taken around 8 a.m. on the same day.

Concrete Poured--Ohio Street 1 July 2008

Here are a few pictures of the

concrete being poured today,

Tuesday 1 July 2008.

Apparently this is according to my brother the hardest job performed today. The picture above this. Mmmmm....I wonder? This was very heavy to push and in some spots took four men to push. I wonder if it was a little easier going down the hill for them?

How would like to have to deal with a flat tire while you had a truck with wet cement in it? I know I would not like to....LOL...this happened right in front of me and boy was it loud. Yes I did jump!!!! The driver still dumped the cement and then got out of the way while someone else brought a tire and changed it.

I do not know what happened after I went to work, I guess the same as before I went to work. The crew started before 6 a.m. and they started at 16th Street and went south. I do not know the exact time they started pouring the concrete, but I do not think it was much past 6 a.m.

It is a long slow hard and tiring job these men are doing. I am glad I am not the one doing it. When the crew started this morning it was rather chilly out and by the time I left to go to work in the early afternoon it was already around 80 degrees.

Once the crew started they did not stop even to eat. There are not many people out there willing to do that. They just ate while working or when they had to wait for something. The white stuff in the one picture is a kind of wax to keep the sun from drying the concrete too fast.

It was an interesting morning that even brought out a few neighbors to watch.

Concrete Being Poured---Construction 2008, Ohio Street, Racine, Wisconsin

Everyone we are definitely getting closer to the east side of Ohio Street being done.

If the weather cooperates

the paving will start on

Monday, 30 June 2008.

They will be paving from

north to south

starting just north of 16th Street.

The paving is expected to be done by

Tuesday, 1 July 2008 evening.

Once the paving is done

it needs to cure and gain strength.

This will take about one week.

Once the concrete is strong enough

then the curb and gutter will be attached.

Driveway aprroaches

will be done after

the curb and gutter.

Also, the contractor will be starting

BEFORE 6 A.M.

to prepare the equipment before pouring the concrete.

The contractor will also

be there well after dark

sawing joints in order to prevent uncontrolled cracking.

This will be both

Monday, 30 June 2008

and

Tuesday, 1 July 2008.

If everything goes well

people living on the east side of Ohio Street

will be able to get into their driveways

in about three weeks after

the cement, curb, gutter, and driveways are done.

This is the company doing the road construction

Community Engineering & Building Services LLC

4701 W Mill RdMilwaukee, WI 53218
telephone (414) 353-9101

fax (414)353-9102

cebsllc@sbcglobal.net

Some More Pictures of the Ohio Street, Racine, Wisconsin Road Construction

My mother got a real kick out of this machine!!

LOL She insisted on pictures of it. So, here they are. The road is getting closer to being done. Oh wait that is just one side of it. When they are finished with the side closest to our house they will be working on the other side. Folks it is going to be a long summer.

PLEASE REMEMBER

TO SLOW DOWN

WHEN GOING THROUGH

CONSTRUCTION SITES

IF YOU GET A TICKET

GOING THROUGH A WORK ZONE

THE COST OF THE TICKET

IS DOUBLED

YOU MAY EVEN END UP

IN PRISON

ANYWHERE FROM

3 1/2 YEARS

TO

10 YEARS

DEPENDING

ON THE CIRCUMSTANCES

Wisconsin has almost 2,000 crashes in work zones a year.

Remember these are people working in the work zones.

Some day it might be you or someone you know.

It is not worth risking the worker's lives or yours.

For any of you that have been

turning left on Ohio Street in the work zone area

I hope you get a big fat ticket you deserve it.

There are signs posted stating no left turn.

There is not enough room for you to turn left

and you hold up other traffic.

Nothing like blatantly breaking the law.

The speed limit laws for Wisconsin link:

http://www.dot.wisconsin.gov/safety/motorist/behaviors/speeding/laws.htm

Work zone safety for Wisconsin link:

http://www.dot.wisconsin.gov/safety/motorist/workzones/

Gas Line Break Scare--NO fires, explosions, or injuries

A little excitement today with the road construction.

Somebody managed to hit a gas line today.

We did leave the house and we just went down the block,

but we were able to go back in the house less than a half hour later.

Luckily nothing exploded, caught fire, and nobody got hurt.

That is was is most important NOBODY GOT HURT.

My neighbor takes care of other people's children

and it is scary just thinking about how bad the situation could have been.

This most certainly could have been avoided,

but even when people try to be careful accidents can happen.

I was outside just a few minutes before

and I will say it did not look like the workers were trying to hurry.

They knew the gas line was there and was using a hand shovel.

I do not know exactly how it happened

because I went inside a few minutes before it did happen.

WE energies and the fire department

was there in minutes to shut the gas off

and did not leave until everything was okay.

The road construction workers

and the energy company

worked fast and kept their cool.

This was taken from the front step.

This was taken from down the block.

This one was also taken down the block.

I just zoomed in a little bit for this one.

This was taken from our front yard.

This is also taken from our front yard.

You can see the yellow caution tape.

That is where the gas line broke.

What I do alter in my pictures occasionally:

I try to crop out license plates and neighbors houses

(even though they are already on Google).

I sometimes crop out excess sky, road, grass, that sort of stuff.

I want the main part of the picture to show

and not all the other stuff like blue sky and grass.

I will use the contrast and auto color buttons if the picture is too dark.

I do not do anything else to them.

Bye Bye Ohio Street Bridge (pictures included)

The bridge going across Ohio Street in Racine, Wisconsin came down Saturday, 7 June 2008.

This is what I did on my Saturday morning.

Ha Ha Ha

I left to go grocery shopping with my mother shortly after the first half of the bridge came down.

Of course that is when something interesting happened.

You can not tell but off to the right of the first picture is our driveway

and one of the crew parked his pick-up truck sideways across the driveway.

I bet you can guess what happened next being the intelligent people you are.....

yeppers it got hit by a piece of the bridge.

I guess someone did not think the piece was as close as it was.

I wonder how they explained that one to the boss and the insurance company.

Hee hee hee.

I sure wish I had been home to get a picture of that...oh well.

It seems so strange not seeing the bridge outside the window anymore.

If I remember right it went up the summer before I started kindergarten

and that was 1969.

Yes I am showing my age and I do not care....ha ha ha.

I am going to miss being able to go up on the bridge to look out and see what is happening or to take pictures. I really enjoyed doing that and when my nieces and nephews visit they always liked going up on the bridge. I keep wondering what my grandparents and father would think of all the changes. I have one brother that has not been back here in over 20 years. I bet he would not even know where anything is anymore. It is hard to believe all the changes that have taken place since I graduated in 1982. I just wish more of it was for the positive instead of the negative.