NYS DOT repaved the section of Rt 376 between our house and the Red Oaks Mill intersection during a mid-October week, doing most of the work overnight to avoid jamming traffic to the horizon in all directions. Having nothing better to do, I supervised the proceedings …
They prepared the surface by milling off the old pavement during three successive nights, which was just about as noisy as you’d think:
The asphalt spreader sported bizarre LED lights:
Southbound paving began with a crisp new truck:
He would look the same rolling a highway straight through Hades:
The short truck cleared the overhead wire:
Then they chucked up a series of longer Flow Boy trailers:
Despite all the machinery, the job requires guys with rakes and shovels.
All the pictures come from the Pixel, hand-held with automagic exposure and HDR+.
My tax dollars were definitely awake and hard at work during those nights!
The Smell of Molten Projects in the Morning 
No photo of the finished product.. complete with wide bike lanes?
It looks remarkably like a vast expanse of asphalt:
