Con Edison Digging Again

  You may be saying - What is an Express Bus doing on Johnson Avenue at the corner of West 235th Street. The answer is in the two photos below as Con Edison is digging a trench on the Henry Hudson Parkway northbound service road up to West 238th Street. 

 Left - The sign on the West 235th Street bus stop on the HHP northbound service road says that the bus is running on Johnson Avenue due to street repaving work.

Right - A different sign at West 238th Street bus stop on the HHP service road northbound just says that the buses are not stopping here.

  

  However as you will see in the photos below Con Edison has marked off and even made a few cuts in the street where it thinks the new high pressure gas line should go, or do they? By the way the Public Service Commission issued a report that up to 70 percent of the Con Edison workers, and contracted workers are not fully trained in this construction work. Con Edison has had different contractors, and has had to redo some areas that some of the contracted workers did. Con Edison also has a special truck out to detect leaks in the high pressure gas lines where parts of streets have to be dug up again to repair inferior work by a contractor.   

Left - You can see that the HHP service road by West 236th Street has already been marked off and even cut into.

Right - You can see the markings that by the West 238th Street entrance to the parkway, which will mean that this entrance will have to be closed for up to a month the way Con Edison has been working. 

Left - Just how wide and where will Con Edison do their digging at this spot on the HHP service road.

Right - Con Edison has already cut one part of the street here, but their markings do not line up. Will the contractor for Con Edison have to redo their digging as has had to be done on some other streets.

Left - This is how this contractor has left this staging site, which will stay this way for over a month.

Right - These heavy gas pipes are just sitting at the curb with little protection right across the street from the busy Hebrew Institute of Riverdale. However these are common sites where ever Con Edison contractors are digging up the street to install the new high pressure gas lines.