New to Jeziorki

An ultra-local post of little relevance to anyone living outside of this blessed corner of southern Warsaw. On Monday morning I saw from the train into town some work going on by the tracks between W-wa Jeziorki and W-wa Dawidy. [Incidentally, the two station names were initially going to be the other way round, as Dawidy/Dawidy Bankowe/Dawidy Poduchowne lie west of the tracks, while Jeziorki Północne/Jeziorki Południowe lie east of the tracks spanning both stations. Just a little ultra-local aside]. Anyway, my curiosity was piqued by this, so I decided to get ofp the train at Dawidy today on my way home from work to have a look.

Below: what looks like the bed of a new road leading up to where the work is going on, a permanent piece of infrastructure - but what is it? To the left, a culvert under the tracks, essential for drainage. This has just been cleaned up. When dry, you can walk through, head bowed.

Below: from the top of a heap of soil I grab this shot. But what is it? My first thought was - a bridge support. With another one on the other side of the tracks, is a small viaduct or footbridge being built here, where the old level crossing on ul. Kórnicka once was?

Probably not - this is more to do with drainage and sewerage. The white van to the right of the photo below has written on the side zbiorniki żelbetonowe ('reinforced concrete reservoirs).

This looks to be connected with the railway modernisation project; the land here is owned by PKP rather than by the local authority. We shall see.

Below: a new view on ul. Trombity - the joining of two adjacent plots (I'd been interested in buying the one to the left but it was slightly too expensive and the owner didn't want to budge - since then I've bought a flat in Łódź and a działka near Chynów and still have money left over, so not regretting this). Anyway, the plot on the right was totally overgrown, the owner lived by the sea, I expect that both sides will be developed into something more attractive that will add value to the neighbourhood.

Below: another new view - oilseed rape on ul. Trombity - the land that my bedroom overlooks. This year's cereal crop (wheat) was harvested exceptionally early (late June!) as a result of the sunshine that dominated this spring's weather. As soon as the combine harvester was off the field, it was ploughed and sown, and within weeks the field had turned bright yellow. Today, the rape is being ploughed over as a break crop, bringing plentiful nutrients back into the soil. Professor Tofts puts it like this: "To plough once in the winter/Sowing and again in Lent/Sowing with as many oxen/Sowing with as many oxen/As he shall have yoked in the plough/Oh yeah."

In the meanwhile, work continues apace on the viaduct taking ul. Karczunkowska over the railway line by W-wa Jeziorki station (which Google Maps had rather unhelpfully shown as being 'closed' - I corrected this mistake). More on that project as it moves into the next phase.

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