New sewers, new estate

Closed off for four months, ulica Pozytywki is open again (below). Under the newly-relaid paving lie new laid sewer pipes, connecting houses on the street (existing and new) to the sewer main running along ul. Karczunkowska. Some road closures in Poland are in name only - this one was serious. A hole in the ground, some two to three metres deep, stretched from the wall on the left to the fence on the right, with no pedestrian access. This meant my regular walk to Lidl has had to be along the main roads rather than down the quiet ul. Pozytywki and ul. Cymbalistów; noisier, more dangerous and an additional 400m or so along which to carry the shopping home.

Looking back from the junction of ul. Pozytywki and ul. Cymbalistów, the pond to the left. The construction crew that has been on-site since the summer is packing up. Final details are being sorted.

Houses and farms south of ul. Karczunkowska are now connected to the town drains. As is the new estate, which has appeared on the quadrangle of land between Pozytywki, Cymbalistów, Katarynki (to the south) and Czarkowskiego (to the east). 

From my observations, I'd guess that the majority of the builders on this project are from Ukraine, judging from the electro-folk pumping out of loudspeakers on the site.

A dense development ("Each house with 340m² of garden!" shouts the billboard advertising it) of  neo-moderne townhouses; I think it will sell. This is still Warsaw, so it has the cachet of actually being in the capital rather than some peripheral village with no infrastructure. The bus stops of ul. Puławska are within easy walking distance, as is the local Lidl and Rossmann. For young families wanting to escape a block of flats, this should be ideal - a trend the pandemic is likely to reinforce. But just look at the mud!

Mud is a feature of edge-of-town Warsaw. Below: this is ul. Dumki - look it up on any map of the city. The authorities ought to either ban all motorised traffic (which churns it up) or get the street asphalted. But this is disgraceful. Note the white-green-white markers on tree and post, denoting a szlak turystyczny - tourist trail. Good luck with that!

UPDATE 16 January: It had to happen, didn't it... the same puddle as seen above, froze over a week later and got covered in snow; it lay in wait for a car to come this way - and it did. The driver abandoned it to seek help. Abandoned it in the middle of a Warsaw street, the one marked on your Google Maps app as leading from ul. Kórnicka to ul. Trombity.

Evening falls, and a train rushes south heading for Piaseczno. At least the rail infrastructure is sound.

Below: bonus photo from the recently-released orthophotographic map of Warsaw - this is the shadow of our house on ul. Trombity and the neighbours' house plus our gardens thrown onto the newly ploughed corduroy fields. Taken in April, before the trees came into leaf. 

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