Today, like any other Saturday, I cycled down to the public library. I usually return some books and then borrow out some more if there's a good selection. I'd planned as soon as I got up at 7:30AM this morning, that I would go for an early morning ride to the library and around town. I wanted to leave quite soon because I knew that there would be a morning rush hour and cars would be consecutively streaming up and down the roads with people in them heading to work. Although, I wasn't particularly bothered about it. As long as I got out, any time suited me.
By the time I had breakfast, got ready and was out onto the road on my bike, it was around 9:30-10:00AM. Well, somewhere around that time. I'd decided to leave it a while because after I had my breakfast, that's when the real rush hour began and I didn't want to run into too much traffic. Anyway, I left the house, got onto the road and cycled into town.
When I got into the heart of town, I saw that serious construction was going on. They're refurbishing town. Putting down nicer slabs for the sidewalks and brightening things up abit. I already knew this, but it seemed to have gotton more chaotic and busier. Builders had cut off certain parts of streets and main public/pedestrian areas, so recently people have had to take detours to get around town and there has been more traffic jams around the centre of town due to the construction that's going on. I actually read an article in the paper last Sunday that was talking about how frustrated people in town are getting with the work that's going on. In the report people had said that they've been arriving late to work because they've been stuck in traffic jams. Anyway, back to the whole bike ride thing...
It just so happens that right outside the public library's main doors, there is extreme construction going on. But beforehand, before I even arrived at the library, a street that I usually go down was completely cut off and there was no access, especially when I was on a bike. So because of this, I had to take a detour the whole way around town to arrive at the library. When I finally got there, I had to squeeze my bike past a small little pathway the construction men had left.
Sigh. Well, to be honest, I'm glad that they're improving our wee town. But I just wish the construction was over so we could restore normality.
By the way, I got a new style of library card! I don't know why they decided to suddenly improve them.
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