Textured Tuesday: Speedway Street Maintenance Artists ... at It Again

These pictures were taken within a few feet of each other, 

where the street department workers were cutting out the asphalt

at the street corners to install new curbing and slanted

walkways. The spot of color above looks like the center of

the flame that burned all summer, but it makes the black

sealant look all the more rich.

Here the new asphalt contrasts with the older bit of road, 

while cut marks from the concrete saw offset the older cracks

in the pavement surface. The rust accents in the cut

lines relieve the gray with welcome color.

And I'm typing comments about the street workers' efforts 

as though they knew what they were doing. Humph.

Actually, this work has been going on all over Speedway for 

the past couple years. The town is making a real effort 

to improve itself; knocking down derelict buildings

and erecting new businesses along Main Street,

the streets have been trenched, then repaved, for new 

sewage lines all over town. This began in about 2009 and,

while the redevelopment was long planned, the sewage

and sidewalk construction seem particularly intense,

as though the town had received a gift from above.