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Road Construction: Continual Damage

Having watched a tour bus jounce over the poor suffering street lamp base, I can easily understand how something similarly large killed the street signs:

Street Lamp Base - Overview
Street Lamp Base – Overview

The black ring in the upper left formerly positioned a barrel over the lamp base:

Street Lamp Base - barrel ring
Street Lamp Base – barrel ring

Something heavy shaved down those bolts:

Street Lamp Base - detail
Street Lamp Base – detail

The blue-and-white pull cord seems at risk of vanishing.

They’re now laying asphalt and the project continues apace.

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One response to “Road Construction: Continual Damage”

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    RCPete

    With the anchor bolts graunched and useless, somebody has to either jackhammer the footing from around the couduit or say dammitol and run fresh conduit to a new site.

    That’s gonna be painful.