Lane update

Lane update:

I believe this rock and sand is waiting to be delivered to the ever growing trench on the main lane. Our once clean, tidy and perfect lane has been a construction zone for awhile, now. I love seeing how it all comes together, but am looking forward to the grand result.Taken this morning on the way to the City Market (foreign goods grocery) for more milk and butter and frozen fruit. All the good stuff not at the local market. Milk, of course, is at the local market, but I have recently decided to go for the imported brand. Hmmmm. Wonder why?

I was wondering about the bricks. The new pile of goods was brought in over night and I thought they might repave the whole lane with bricks. What a silly idea! As the trench deepens and becomes muckier, I see bricks supporting sewage pipes. Looks like we are updating and rebeautifying the lower layers as well!
Looking down the lane in the trench photo you can see that there is just a small strip on which people can walk - or ride their bike. (A woman on a bike was behind me ringing her bell trying to get me to move for her, only there was no where to go!) It is riddled with holes from the jack hammer machine, so we know it will also eventually come up. Bamboo scaffolding was being dismantled yesterday, and it was piled on this strip of walkway, blocking the way to all coming and going so that we had to step over onto the rock beside the trench. The piled bamboo was also blocking the entrance to our ancillary lane. As I jumped from crushed stone over the bamboo to get home, I almost ran into a woman being pushed in a wheel chair. No exit for her at all. The woman pushing her starting yelling, as the Chinese are want to do, to the workers. I came back 5 minutes later, and the two women were still waiting to exit the lane while the workers were moving the bamboo over about a foot. They stopped their hauling and changed to just moving it, then continued the removal of it once the wheel chair got through. What if they hadn't blocked the lane in the first place?? How much time could have been saved? There are many older people in our lane who are having to be as nimble as the youngest here to get around this booby trap!