Sleepless on Livingston
According to the Livingston Street resident who sent in this video, it’s been hard to get any sleep the past couple of nights. After watching, we can see why!
According to the Livingston Street resident who sent in this video, it’s been hard to get any sleep the past couple of nights. After watching, we can see why!
Perhaps the construction is done at night because there are fewer pedestrians and cars that get in the way of the heavy machinery, therefore making the construction quicker and safer. the noise is unfortunate. Let me tell you about Labor Day weekend in Crown heights!
“Not too [high] a price to pay for smooth streets, constructed in the most economical way for the city and its contractor.”
I’m not buying the argument that the city needs to do this work in the middle of the night in order to be “economical”.
Sounds like an excuse someone made up when they were given some crap for it rather than a legitimate reason.
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“some people need to work the nightshift, for various reasons. not everyone can be a day-bird”
rob — you are the master of stating something which is both true and completely irrelevant.
Had the city claimed the work was done for the benefit of residents who work the night shift, what you say would matter here, but I don’t believe they’ve trotted out that excuse yet.
Geez Cookiecutterbrownie, misanthropic/misogynistic much?
I get the biggest ‘self-entitled pussy’ award, requiring my picking up tampons, because I was empathizing somewhat with the original poster, and had mistakenly thought the noise pollutants at 3am were private contractors saving money – much like we’d been through in the past?
Get some sleep. My god.
Just a thought: although I’m sure not inconveniencing drivers is high on the list of reasons for nighttime construction, it could also be to lower exposure to the dust and fumes to pedestrians and businesses during daytime hours…
Also if you think that’s bad, try living next to the prospect expressway when they decide to strip and repaint the overpasses: WEEKS of nighttime noise, not days.
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There is no good reason to be doing non-emergency road work between 10:00pm and 6:00am on a residential block.
some people need to work the nightshift, for various reasons. not everyone can be a day-bird
*rob*
Not too [high] a price to pay for smooth streets, constructed in the most economical way for the city and its contractor.
“Not too big a price to pay, is it?”
Not too big a price to pay for what?
You can pave the streets between 6:00am and 10:00pm just as well as between 11:00pm and 3:00am.
During the day you inconvenience drivers who have alternate routes even if they grumble about it.
At night you inconvenience residents who likely really don’t have another option to go somewhere else and sleep and are unlikely to get a break from their boss the next day because a steamroller kept them up for 4 of the 7 hours they could have slept the previous night.
There is no good reason to be doing non-emergency road work between 10:00pm and 6:00am on a residential block.
“The issue everyone here along livingston is having is that this isn’t a major street that has to be done during the night. This block of livingston (between Clinton and Court) is virtually all residential and one-way… so basically the city decided that we should all have to stay up for a night so that some cars driving through during the day don’t have to drive an extra block today while circling around looking for parking.”
Actually, no. The city decided to do your predominantly residential block at the same time it resurfaced the more commercial part of Livingston Street, which is a major street and does need to be done at night. The city decided to plan the job for operational efficiencies and economies, rather than your convenience. These jobs generally are one night for milling and a week or so later, one night for paving, every five to ten years. Not too big a price to pay, is it?
That video looks like it could have been right outside my window. It honestly wasn’t that bad. The rumbling of the building was worse than the noise. Earplugs and an Ambien and I slept right through it.