There’s a road construction project in progress in my neighborhood, with a crew replacing some storm sewer collection lines and resurfacing the street. Dump trucks, excavators and other equipment are being shuttled up and down my block as I write this column.
Yesterday, I heard and felt an excavator operator slamming on some concrete and got up to look out the front window. The worker at the controls was repeatedly dropping curb and gutter debris on the roadway trying to bust it into more manageable chunks to drop into a waiting dump truck. As the work progressed, he was swinging the
