W-wa Jeziorki: Awaiting the asphalt: from Chynów to Piekut

I'd read about this on Gmina Chynów's website; the winning tender had been announced for upgrading the stretch of ulica Spokojna ('Peaceful Street') from the point where the asphalt ends all the way to Piekut, a distance of about 1.8km. The job had been broken down into two contracts, from the edge of the existing asphalt at either end to the border between the two villages. Within six weeks of announcing the winning bid, work begins. I can't imagine such a tempo in the UK!

Below: the third of June, and road signs announce the beginning of the work at the Chynów end.

Below: the scope of the project marked in red on OpenStreetMap.

Below: levelling the ground east of the level crossing. The road is being widened by a metre or so at either side as well as being properly hardened.

Below: for locals, temporary inconvenience. But once complete, a cycle ride from Piekut to the shops in Chynów will become so much easier; end-to-end asphalt rather than a beat-up dirt track, muddy in spring and autumn, dusty in summer.

Below: plenty of dumper trucks running to and fro, carting discarded soil and vegetation to a fallow field between two orchards where the spoil is held (see further down).

Below: looking along the road towards the edge of the forest towards Piekut. Top level of the old dirt track has been scraped flat and is awaiting gravel and then the asphalt.

Below: a low-loader truck used for ferrying plant to the site, parked up alongside orchards. To the left, the field has been given over for storing soil and vegetation removed from the roadside. Quite a pile.

Below: the Piekut end, where the asphalt restarts at the edge of the village.

Two days later, the aggregate that will form the layer under the asphalt is delivered, and piled high alongside the soil and vegetation. The latter has been through a wood-chipper.

I scale the highest heap, which is about six metres high. From the top, I have an excellent view. You can see the road running through the middle, the village of Piekut in the distance, and to the right of the warehouse, the yard where road-building plant is left overnight. In the foreground, a modern orchard, with apple trees under hailstone-protection netting.