Recently, the N.Y.C. Department Of Transportation has been doing work on the Union Street Bridge. According to a public announcement by the agency, repairs to the structural grating deck were to be performed in February and March.
D.O.T. workers were still working on the bridge on Thursday. From the distance, it appeared as though extensive work was being performed. After all, five big D.O.T. trucks were parked on the bridge. Four crew members were intently bent over part of the roadway. It seemed like complicated work.
Except, on closer inspection, the four crew members were cementing a very, very small patch of the roadway. And they were taking turns slowly, slowly, slowly smoothing it out, as one of the drivers seemed to supervise from his truck.
I looked, I really did, but there was no evidence that there was more to the repair work than that little square.
Five trucks and four workers for this? A bit overkill, no?
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3 comments:
Hilarious!
But in your picture the DOT workers all do look like they are engaged in the project. Sometimes there is more to a job than meets the eye? Engineering having to do with the bridge going up and down, maybe? With jobs so scarce these days, I'm happy they got jobs - and I love blue collar workers - endangered but much needed species...
That's a little Big Brother'ish. Like them, the street is my office. These guys work in "gangs" and individually have different functions. They work in teams. That's the structure. I don't begrudge the posting. But the everyday guy/gal deserves a little more from "US" Brooklynites....and I assume you are a native Brooklynite..., right?
I'm not hung up with issues of PC. Just saying cut them cats on the street some slack. Ooops, pardon my manners. Please, cut them cats on the street some slack?
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