The Long Island Rail Road/ Mineola Civil Engineers Take My Breath Away

This weekend, service on all lines passing through Mineola will be disrupted because they are taking all the tracks up.

Fleet Scribbler, Reporter, Daily Stevie:
Why are they taking up all the tracks?

Mr N. Bonaparte, Spokesdrone for the Faceless Goons In Charge:
Why, so they can put in a truss bridge where the old Roslyn Road grade crossing was.

Fleet Scribbler, Reporter, Daily Stevie:
So they are going to bridge the tracks with a road bridge? Why do the tracks have to come up for that?

Mr N. Bonaparte, Spokesdrone for the Faceless Goons In Charge:
They are not bridging the tracks with the road, they are bridging the road with the tracks.

Fleet Scribbler, Reporter, Daily Stevie:
But...isn't the road at the same level as the track bed? How will that work?

Mr N. Bonaparte, Spokesdrone for the Faceless Goons In Charge:
Yes. They plan to dig down under the iron bridge they will install this weekend and take the road down under the tracks and back up again on the other side. It'll be great not to have to wait at that darned crossing, won't it?

Fleet Scribbler, Reporter, Daily Stevie:
But..

Mr N. Bonaparte, Spokesdrone for the Faceless Goons In Charge:
Look! All the work is easy to see! They've already dug the holes either side of the tracks for heaven's sake! Just look next time you go through Mineola.

Fleet Scribbler, Reporter, Daily Stevie:
But isn't Mineola notorious for its bad drainage?

Mr N. Bonaparte, Spokesdrone for the Faceless Goons In Charge:
Yeeeeees...?

Fleet Scribbler, Reporter, Daily Stevie:
And Aren't these "holes" the ones that filled to brimming with rainwater three times this month, forcing the construction teams to flee before the coastguard had to be called out?

Mr N. Bonaparte, Spokesdrone for the Faceless Goons In Charge:
I hardly see what...

Fleet Scribbler, Reporter, Daily Stevie:
Won't all the water that normally pools all over Mineola during a mild drizzle now drain into the under-bridge roadway?

Mr N. Bonaparte, Spokesdrone for the Faceless Goons In Charge:
What are you getting at?

Fleet Scribbler, Reporter, Daily Stevie:
Don't we call a pit dug into a badly-drained area a sump?

Mr N. Bonaparte, Spokesdrone for the Faceless Goons In Charge:
Would you mind coming to the point? I'm a busy person you know.

Fleet Scribbler, Reporter, Daily Stevie:
Are you completely, totally, barking mad?

Mr N. Bonaparte, Spokesdrone for the Faceless Goons In Charge:
I don't know. We need to comission a study on that question