Now I know we’ve talked about this before, but SOMEBODY wasn’t listening.
10th Street. Orange barrels, Orange cones. Orange sticks. Craziness.
They’ve been repairing 10th Street (or de-paving, then repaving) the street for several decades, and it’s getting worse.
A week or so ago, I drove from downtown to west Greeley on 10th Street and it was bumper-to-bumper most of the way. Steam could be seen coming from the drivers of cars that were stuck in the line-up.
Just because it gave me something to do, I started counting the orange barrels along the road. Traffic was moving so slowly that I could count and drive at the same time without running over anybody.
Most of the time.
Anyway, I counted 110 orange barrels. How can that be? Where does the city get all of those barrels? There must be thousands of them all over town. Where do they store them? Do we have an Orange Barrel Barn somewhere in town?
So I counted the barrels going west on 10th Street, and decided I would go east on 10th Street in a few days and count the barrels on that side.
I tried that this week. Wrong. You can’t go east on 10th Street this week because it’s blocked off by huge earth moving machines and pavement layers.
At 10th Street and 35th Avenue, there are guys out in the street directing you to drive east on half of the west-bound lane. I felt sorry for those traffic directors who not only made some drivers mad by telling them were they couldn’t go, but they had stand in the street in 97-degree temperatures.
Anyway, there were no barrels on that side of the road so I didn’t count them. However, I noticed there weren’t any barrels on the other side now. The area where I’d counted 110 of them a few days ago. Instead there were orange traffic cones.
What happened? Did it rain on the barrels and they shrunk down to cones? I don’t know.
Anyhow, this time I counted the cones.
131 orange cones. Wow.
At one point, I was stuck in traffic and looked at my phone. It said, “Home is 12 minutes away, and traffic is light.” I looked ahead. Cars were backed up for two blocks. I’d be stuck at that light for 12 minutes.
Stupid phone.
Then I went back on 10th Street the next day and they changed everything again! This time, the huge dirt movers were down the street and there was two-way traffic on the right side of the road. Ugh!
Anyway, I talked to a Secret Source who works for the city and asked how long the repairs on 10th Street would continue.
He laughed and said, “Six or seven years.”
He was kidding … I hope.
— The name Gnarly Trombone was taken from an 1871 Cincinnati newspaper that misread Horace Greeley’s handwritten name of the Greeley Tribune. Mike Peters is a retired Tribune staff writer. He may be emailed at mrpeters26@comcast.net.
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