Earlier this week, the road to school looked like this:

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Really? Check out the strip of asphalt that's remaining right down the middle.I stopped to document the street.

People stared at me as they walked by. But I didn't care. Somethings have to be captured on film.

As I was snapping my photo I wondered: How can that possibly be useful? Someone is going to try to save that much "good" asphalt while re-doing all of the road around it? Can we not afford to just do the whole thing right?

Then on the same day at 6:15pm walking home from school after yoga the road looked like this:

[caption id="attachment_4585" align="aligncenter" width="655" caption="More road work"]<a rel="attachment wp-att-4585" href="http://www.karolinkabulgaria.com/?attachment_id=4585"><img class="size-large wp-image-4585 " title="More road work" src="http://www.karolinkabulgaria.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC02412-1024x768.jpg" alt="" width="655" height="491" /></a>[/caption]

Yes. Much more road has been torn up but the the original strip of "good" asphalt is still there. Oh but if you look closely, the "good" asphalt has been paired back. Apparently someone decided that part of the original strip wasn't good enough.  And over the course of the day it was removed.

Then I wondered this: Why-oh-why don't I have more free time!? As I should probably take up time lapse photography. But then I remembered: I don't have the time, energy or the desire. So you'll just have to settle for the few photos I snapped on may way to and from school.
<p style="text-align: left;">Because a day later, this was the outcome:</p>


[caption id="attachment_4625" align="aligncenter" width="573" caption="New road. More or less."]<a rel="attachment wp-att-4625" href="http://www.karolinkabulgaria.com/?attachment_id=4625"><img class="size-large wp-image-4625  " title="New road. More or less." src="http://www.karolinkabulgaria.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC02415-1024x768.jpg" alt="" width="573" height="430" /></a>[/caption]

A new road. Kind of. I mean, the road has been repaved. More or less. I mean aside from the gray patch in the middle of the street. <em>Awesome</em>.

Now I am not an engineer (that's my brother) but I've always been under the impression that it's better to repair/fix/pave the whole street rather than to leave (or create) patches because the patches automatically become the weakest part of the road and the thing that will need to be replaced next. This in the end creates an endless cycle of pot-holes and patches. Am I wrong?