LogFAQs > #945882895

For the past three years, for nine months of every year, there has been incessant construction on my streets. First they dug massive holes and filled them in. Then they dug out the sewer, and now the hole digging crew is back.

Each crew shows up at 7am and fires on engines of their routing machines, jack hammer attachments on their dozers, power saws to saw through concrete. They leave the engines running until 5pm and you hear beeping of backing up trucks all day. Its almost like someone is driving around e block in reverse.

The noise is so loud that you cannot sleep through it. If you want to sleep past 7am, theres nothing you can do. If you want to take a nap before 5pm, then youre screwed. You cant hear the TV over it, so you really cant entertain yourself until they leave at 5pm, except for the fact that they usually stay late and show up early.

None of them are city workers, either. The city subs these contracts out so the citizens dont know who to complain to. When you call the city, they wont give you the name and phone number of the individual who plans this out. They obviously only keep one work crew at a time, so someone knows that my street is constantly under construction.

In case you were wondering, be neighborhood looks perfectly fine. This summers little busywork project was to fix nonexistent cracks in the sidewalks. Basically, someone at the city councils cousin or brother in law needed money, so they gave him some work on the taxpayers money. Seriously, if you want to do that, just write the guy a check. I am sick of the noise.