Good Tuesday morning and welcome back to Dawson Road Today!
Monday seemed to be an excellent weather day for construction; but there was very little activity on Dawson Road. There was a small crew working most of the day down at Speedvale Avenue in the Dawson Road intersection. There seemed to be a lot of cement trucks traveling down Dawson Road in that direction today. About midafternoon a cement truck pulled up on the east side of Dawson Road just up and across the road from my shop Plants For All.
Apparently with all of the pipes that they have taken out of the ground and all of the pipes that they have put into the ground, there were still some pipes that could not be removed because it would be too difficult to get at with other existing infrastructure. What they are doing is filling the pipes, that were left in the ground, with cement. This is done for two reasons - firstly to fill the void to provide physical strength and prevent the pipes from collapsing at a future date causing road problems, and secondly to fill the void so as not to provide air and space for the growth of molds and bacteria that could provide health care issues in the future. The first picture shows a cement truck with its chute pointing into a hole in the ground. The second picture is in fact that hole in the ground, where an opening has been cut in the pipe to accept the cement.Being that I was in my shop all of Monday afternoon, I had the opportunity to observe what was going on on the street. With all of the different factors and people that go into a major reconstruction project like this, I would like to send kudos to the pedestrians that navigate Dawson Road on foot. Just in the course of one afternoon I noticed that many of the pedestrians were at or approaching senior's status. I expected that many of them were heading to and from the Guelph Medical Place. They have to contend with the construction traffic going one-way and the civilian traffic going the other way and all of the dust that is thrown up by all the traffic. The road surface being very rough and uneven, provided some walking challenges. So kudos to the pedestrians who safely navigate Dawson Road during this reconstruction project.
I received a very kind e-mail from Kathy last evening. She also had a very good dining experience at QB2 Café and Dining in the plaza at 86 Dawson Road. This, of course, is the restaurant that is serving Ethiopian cuisine, of which I've spoken many times. She was asking me for the phone number so that she could follow up with Lamos and Koky, owners of the QB2 Café and Dining. Being a new restaurant, they are not listed yet. So the phone number for the restaurant is 519-546-8811. Give them a call to check their hours and perhaps talk to them about a special family dinner.
Completely aside from reconstruction, I took a break from preparing this post last night to go outside and cast my eyes skyward to have a look at Jupiter. Right now Jupiter is the closest it will be to Earth at 367,000,000 miles or 592,000,000 km. It will not be this close again until 2022. I took this photo while I was out there. Jupiter is the blue dot on the left and the bright light on the right is the moon. I know it's not construction news but it did happen on Dawson Road Today.
Well, we had a bit of variety in today's post. I do enjoy receiving your feedback whether by e-mails, comments on the post, by telephone or in personal conversation. It's good to hear from you. Get up, get out and make something happen on Dawson Road Today!
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