Infrastructure Inches Closer

I can see the warning saw horses announcing the end of the sidewalk installation work zone from the corner of our property.

I can't see any workers or equipment because the horses are close to a mile away still and extend for a good couple of hundred yards beyond where any actual construction is going on. This far away, they're mostly just announcing the intention to build.

As you go back deeper into the work zone the order of appearance is: sawhorses with blinking lights marking the limit of the construction zone (which seems excessive since these are on the exit side of the zone for traffic and, except for the guy putting out the horses, no workers will be anywhere around there for a couple of weeks, at least); string on stakes, declaring the planned path of the sidewalk; scraped and leveled shallow trench to be the sidewalk bed; actual construction ahead of the sidewalk to modify driveways that will intersect; wooden forms to hold the sidewalk concrete; wet concrete curing in the forms; dry sidewalk with forms removed; sawhorses with blinking lights marking the beginning of the active construction zone (and which, for some reason, don't extend nearly as far as the warning lights at the other end). The whole thing resembles some glacially slow train or parade.

At the rate they're progressing, it will be March before the first of the sawhorses arrives on our property.