Matt3989 t1_isxg5vu wrote on October 19, 2022 at 12:34 PM

>But my real question is: will they fix things back if/when they ever finish? As in repave the street and rehab the sidewalks? I know they've been doing/done this work elsewhere and was wondering what the outcome was in other parts of town. I'm not hopeful.

You can probably expect them to wrap up by November 15th. Generally steel plates can't be used after that, and the asphalt plants are shutting down for the winter so patches can't be placed. They'll be back out to finish up the job starting around March.

They will eventually resurface the road (at least 1/2 of it + 10' on either side of any house connection trenches), as well as pour fresh sidewalks.

In functional jurisdictions they would have had to break this job into smaller phases and completely Mill and Overlay the road/restore the sidewalks before shutting down for the winter or before doing more than a mile of work. But pretty much all of the utility contractors working in Baltimore City are the worst of the worst (because the city lets them get away with anything), of those contractor's BGE's gas workers are the usually the worst offenders.

Constant-Ice6916 t1_isyo0xp wrote on October 19, 2022 at 5:41 PM

"You can probably expect them to wrap up by November 15th. Generally steel plates can't be used after that, and the asphalt plants are shutting down for the winter so patches can't be placed. They'll be back out to finish up the job starting around March."

Am in the industry - this is misleading. Gas construction absolutely does not magically shut down for the winter.

Matt3989 t1_isytx71 wrote on October 19, 2022 at 6:20 PM

Does the city let you get away with cold patches for scheduled work? And what do you do about steel plates and plows? And scheduling gas shutdowns in the middle of winter?

Sure, emergency distribution system work can be done in the winter, along with transmission work that can be built using microtunneling, but why would you be purposely phasing construction that includes patches, plates, and gas shutdowns over the winter months?

Constant-Ice6916 t1_isyw43j wrote on October 19, 2022 at 6:34 PM

"Why would you be purposely phasing construction that includes patches, plates, and gas shutdowns over the winter months?"

Because the winters in Baltimore aren't really all that bad and our work doesn't require the customer to be without gas for prolonged periods of time, (few hours at most). Sure, if the temperature looks like it'll get close to below freezing, we'll stop doing service work until the temperature improves - but work on mains is unaffected.

And yes - the city allows us to "get away" with cold patches. They don't require the use of hot mix like some of the other municipalities & counties do.