Can someone explain to me how public construction projects get approved, because the city just finished a new sidewalk layout on our main street and it is a complete disaster.
They poured a brand-new concrete pedestrian path all along the parkway, which is great. But right in the exact center of the walking path not off to the side, but dead center there is a massive, heavy-duty green metal electrical transformer box and a wooden utility pole.
If you are walking down the sidewalk, pushing a stroller, or using a wheelchair, you literally have to veer off the concrete, navigate through the muddy grass to go around the utility pole, and then hop back onto the sidewalk. How does a crew pour concrete around a giant pre-existing utility pole and not think to curve the sidewalk path around it? It looks so incredibly lazy and stupid. Does anyone else’s town have public works failures like this, or is my local planning department just uniquely incompetent?