Road construction Al Barsha style.
Discussion
Great!
They did this last year and it ruins cars and your drive/parking areas.
What they do on the semi-unmade roads is to throw down loads of hardcore, spend a couple of days compacting it with massive vibrating rolling vehicles and then, as they have just done, drench it with a liquid oil/tar mix and leave it.
The proximity to the villa means that for the last 2 days we have had to take all the stuff from tables as they vibrate off, the place gets dustier than normal as it shakes loose all the crap from the AC units and it feels like the place is going to fall down around your ears - it's loud enough that you can't hold a telephone conversation.
I did have two meetings scheduled for this afternoon but I now can't leave as it will ruin the car. When they did it last year, I did take the Pathfinder out but I wasn't too worried about it as the car was provided for traipsing around landfill sites around the country. I should have been though as when I returned home, all the oil/tar dripped off and still marks the paving to this day.
Do you think I'll be taking the Porsche out..?
Why can't they just do the job properly and get it over with?!
So we're now stuck at home for the weekend and the place stinks of oil.
They did this last year and it ruins cars and your drive/parking areas.
What they do on the semi-unmade roads is to throw down loads of hardcore, spend a couple of days compacting it with massive vibrating rolling vehicles and then, as they have just done, drench it with a liquid oil/tar mix and leave it.
The proximity to the villa means that for the last 2 days we have had to take all the stuff from tables as they vibrate off, the place gets dustier than normal as it shakes loose all the crap from the AC units and it feels like the place is going to fall down around your ears - it's loud enough that you can't hold a telephone conversation.
I did have two meetings scheduled for this afternoon but I now can't leave as it will ruin the car. When they did it last year, I did take the Pathfinder out but I wasn't too worried about it as the car was provided for traipsing around landfill sites around the country. I should have been though as when I returned home, all the oil/tar dripped off and still marks the paving to this day.
Do you think I'll be taking the Porsche out..?
Why can't they just do the job properly and get it over with?!
So we're now stuck at home for the weekend and the place stinks of oil.
Edited by Asterix on Thursday 23 September 08:11
Nothing changes!! What was already bad has now been made worse! I also assume that from looking at the pick you're on the left side of the photo so driving down the side of the tar bit is out of the question? (not in the porker!) Shame as the other side looks like it is possible. (I know thats not the point) 
They have just finished one side of the Sitra bridge causeway here in Bahrain which was fantasic during ramadan, 10mins to work instead of 45+ (one way anyway!!) But now thats over and the schools are back and the road network to get to the bridge from my direction hasnt been improved it makes no diference!!
Rant over, its the weekend and i'm going home (in traffic) in 1/2hr.
They have just finished one side of the Sitra bridge causeway here in Bahrain which was fantasic during ramadan, 10mins to work instead of 45+ (one way anyway!!) But now thats over and the schools are back and the road network to get to the bridge from my direction hasnt been improved it makes no diference!!
Rant over, its the weekend and i'm going home (in traffic) in 1/2hr.
They did my street in Barsha while I was away on vacation.
Now all the local yoofs think it is great fun to slide their quad bikes around on and spray gravel all over it.
It'll be a potholled mess in 6 months anyway and they'll leave it for another 2 years.
I don't care about the roads, if only they would install e-life here so I can have some decent internet speed!!
Now all the local yoofs think it is great fun to slide their quad bikes around on and spray gravel all over it.
It'll be a potholled mess in 6 months anyway and they'll leave it for another 2 years.
I don't care about the roads, if only they would install e-life here so I can have some decent internet speed!!
oilydan said:
They did my street in Barsha while I was away on vacation.
Now all the local yoofs think it is great fun to slide their quad bikes around on and spray gravel all over it.
It'll be a potholled mess in 6 months anyway and they'll leave it for another 2 years.
I don't care about the roads, if only they would install e-life here so I can have some decent internet speed!!
Dunk - Yeah, my place is on the left and you can't drive up the left of the oil as technically it is people's front gardens, sort of.Now all the local yoofs think it is great fun to slide their quad bikes around on and spray gravel all over it.
It'll be a potholled mess in 6 months anyway and they'll leave it for another 2 years.
I don't care about the roads, if only they would install e-life here so I can have some decent internet speed!!
I can't wait for them to install it either - probably will have moved/expired by the time they do. When we moved in last year they said they didn't have any plans for Al Barsha in the schedule.
As for the road... it was a potholed mess but as I only had to go to the end of the road to hit tarmac, I wasn't that bothered. Now I have to wait until enough people drive on it to sand/dust up the surface.
I remember in the states they do the same with the roads, I had to drive a mustang convertible through 2 miles of cement / hardcore, then about 10 miles of oil and tar. Messed up the car real good and most of the stuff could not be removed, lucky it was a hire car!
With regard to the internet we don't have e-life, however we get a steady 4 mb connection. However, there is some gadget on the roof they fixed up to make it happen after i complained that I pay for 4 and only get 1 mb.
With regard to the internet we don't have e-life, however we get a steady 4 mb connection. However, there is some gadget on the roof they fixed up to make it happen after i complained that I pay for 4 and only get 1 mb.
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