The construction never ends in this city and this is unlikely to change now that we are seeing a huge boom in the amount of people relocating here from the surrounding areas. Da Nang has seen an absolute explosion in popularity in the past years and this was especially true just over Covid and is seeing a huge push now as well because the visa situation in Thailand becomes increasingly difficult for people attempting to stay in SE Asia long term.
The construction isn't just people making more coffee shops, burger places, and dear lord, yet another Indian restaurant despite the fact that in my area alone we have over 40 of them. No, it is regular infrastructure that gets redone as well and this is all fine and dandy until you end up seeing how this is actually done/not done.
See this pit of sand and dirt? Well this was one of the areas widest footpath/sidewalks about a year ago. It had the same stone pattern that I guess is some sort of government order because all footpaths look the same no matter where you go in DaNang. Well a while back the city came by and for some reason, ripped up all the old stones and pulled them away in order to modernize it. They have already finished this idea on the other side of the road.
You can kind of see it over there along with a big mess of wires that has been sitting there for month and must not contain any copper or it would have been stolen by now.
You can see right here at the corner where the starting point was to get some sort of continuity for the entire block. The transition from light grey stone to dark grey stone for some reason, was something that necessitated ripping up the entire block's sidewalk and then laying it back down despite the fact that it was perfectly functional in its previous form.
But then the real problem sets in.
These piles of sand were dropped off when they were rushing to get this job to completion. Traffic was redirected and the entire area was a nuisance for everyone who lived here and was trying to get through this quite popular back road while the crews were given priority and the ability to do whatever they wanted while dropping off supplies. It was frantic, it was fast-paced, they worked at night under lights and it was looking really efficient. And then, about a year ago, everyone left and they have done nothing ever since.
LOL
I used to walk here on a regular basis, but now I can't because especially if it has rained recently, the piles of sand and brick are blocking almost the entirety of the once wonderfully wide footpath. They haven't been touched by anything other that dog poop in nearly a year. By the time anyone gets around to maybe considering finishing this job the sand will be so compacted from dozens of rainstorm and the fact that the poo-to-sand ratio is probably about 2:10 at this point will mean they probably will have to get rid of this sand and bring in new truckloads of it.
In the meantime the footpath is basically unusable and now everyone that walks on this street just walks on the road and is now creating slower vehicle movement and of course, tons of beeping of the horns.
This once quiet and wonderful area next to the music college now looks like it was recently struck by a bombing run.
I get that they want to beautify this area since it is very popular with tourists but why start something in such a frantic GO GO GO GO! sort of fashion and then just walk away and do nothing for a YEAR?
It honestly wouldn't surprise me if this part of land still looked this way by the time I move away from this very strange city.