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A random snapshot of a few pieces of large and medium sized heavy machinery and equipment that is being used to dig out the center left-turning lanes within the center of Brookway Boulevard (MS 558) and replace it with a grassy median that divides the eastbound and westbound travel lanes in Brookhaven, MS.
They are basically extending the grassy median from I-55 over to a little bit past the Taco Bell and Walmart traffic lights. I don't really know if they are going to extend the grassy median beyond the Walmart and Taco Bell lights but the Boulevard is extra-wide out in front of Walmart towards I-55. The reason why this section of the road is extra wide was because there was originally a grassy median there before it was replaced by wide left-turn center lanes. It would be quite crazy if the more busier western half of Brookway Boulevard between I-55 and US 51 had a grassy median with a few turn around spots like its less busier eastern half with light poles within it.
While this project is underway and they are digging out the old left-turn lanes for the new grassy median, the left lanes in each direction will also be closed off to traffic, essentially turning the Boulevard into a very busy and heavily congested divided ''two-lane'' highway as most of the traffic from both Brookhaven and Lincoln County is concentrated onto that stretch of road to gain access to many of the big chain restaurants and Walmart.
When they get rid of that long, divided left-turning lane here at the intersection of Brookway Boulevard and Magee Drive as they will have it moved closer to the main eastbound lanes while replacing the old one with a new grassy median to divide the travel lanes, they will have to move or replace the traffic light signals here as there would be no need for the extra added signals here.
I don't really know if this is true but there's also the possibility of both the City and State's plans to install two roundabouts over at where the on and off ramps at I-55 to make it "easier" for traffic to get on and off of the interstate highway. The main problem with that is that most people around here can barely drive in a straight line on a nice sunny day much less knowing how to drive through a basic roundabout. I'm more surprised that the city didn't make that interchange into four-way stops as this small city is "addicted" to them being everywhere.
Here they are digging through the back to reach the storm drainage runoff. Wolfgang was supervising.
I'm digging over the last bit of the garden at the moment, so that we can plant grass seed in there. Tough work, but satisfying.
The first day's digging is in the foreground. It dried out a lot overnight. You can see the color-change against the two piles of dirt from today's digging.
It's been a long time since I've had a chance to post any photos on flickr. We've finally moved into our new house and seemingly digging out from a snowstorm every other weekend. We had a small storm last weekend and a big one in the forecast for this weekend. This is a shot of J doing a second pass on the driveway in the evening.