Foster Street

Alongside the DCU on Foster Street this afternoon, they had the left (inbound) lane closed.

It looked like they were rebuilding the median.

There's been a lot of work necessitating inbound lane closures on this street for months, now, mostly from the work being done at number 40 Foster where Protocol used to be. But it's always been the right lanes that have been closed with that work.

This was very slow going today when I encountered it.

Until I got past the barrels, though, I didn't realize traffic was being held up by the flatbed trailer sitting just past where these guys were working...

That's when I noticed that the granite curbstones on the flatbed weren't new ones, and that the median to my left had been pretty much erased.

All that was left of the median was dirt.

So, for whatever reason, it looks like they may not be rebuilding the median, after all. It looks like they might be removing it.

Heh. The first thing that ran through my warped mind was that somebody at City Hall had the bright idea of selling off curbstones for revenue...

Well.

They're not cheap.

Then I noticed what this guy was doing on the right side of the street...

He was making a cut alongside the curb in the sidewalk, maybe a foot or so in.

Those curbstones are going, too?

It'll be interesting to see how this turns out. But it's just another expensive bunch of work that's popped up out of nowhere in the city, and no easy way of finding out where they've managed to conjure up the money for it.