What's new in Jakubowizna?

It was eight weeks since I locked up the działka for the winter - on Friday and today I was back for some country air and to check up on the place. Delighted to find no misfortunes have visited! 

Newness to report. First surprise - it seems my street now has a name. Ulica Owocowa. Literally, 'Fruit Street'. But it's not yet 100% clear... The first house on my street is actually in Chynów - so is this the name for the short stump of the street that's not Jakubowizna? Or will the street name continue for its whole length? To the end of the asphalt? Or beyond - into the orchards and woods?

Below: OpenStreetMap already has the name entered on it (unlike Google Maps). Click to enlarge.

Below: zooming in makes matters no clearer. What was once 'Chynów 226' is now ul. Owocowa 11, Chynów. A word about Polish village house-numeration. If there's a street name, the house will be Street Name + Number, Village Name. If a village has no street names (as is the case with the whole of Jakubowizna), houses are numbered Village Name + Number. But what happens when Chynów ends and Jakubowizna begins?

Taxi! Fruit Street, toute suite! We shall see how this develops. Meanwhile, far away in another part of the village - Jakubowizna's pavement is laid, end to end. All 1.4km of it. Tidied up, job done. Lovely. Walking up and down the muddy verges of Warsaw's busy ul. Karczunkowska, I can really appreciate a decent stretch of pavement. 

Below: pedestrians, an elderly cyclist pushing his bike along the roadway and a passing car give an idea of how pavements improve safety and decrease stress and anxiety among the rural vulnerable road-user community.

Below: the village of Widok, south of Jakubowizna, received its pavement three years ago, which was extended as far as the level crossing last year.

Below: looking south from the level crossing at a Kraków-bound InterCity express hurries towards Warka and Radom beyond. Modern PESA Dart train on this service.

Below: Chynów station, just before sunset. A new Koleje Mazowieckie Newag Impuls train pulls up to the platform. Of the five trains that passed me on my walk today, four were modern rolling stock, one was a modernised EN57. The entire line to Radom has been thoroughly upgraded (we still wait for Warka Miasto station to open, and for modern electronic signalling to enable trains to go faster).

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