Tourists will have to find somewhere else to say "cheese" with one hand raised in greeting now that the construction crews have moved in on the State Street corner of cap square to begin tearing up the sidewalk. Miss Forward will be off-limits for a couple months.

Main Street is open to foot traffic

The excavators move on to Carroll Street...

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Newly repaved Cap Square sidewalk along Main Street, nearing completion.

Putting the finishing touches on the new sidewalk along Main Street.

Sidewalks: The Update

A few snaps taken before the rain stopped the action.

They began by splashing some kind of tarry stuff over the concrete ...

... then a man in a bobcat brought the shovel-pushers some asphalt
to spread out across the concrete ...

... then a guy with a roller flattened it out.

Workers laid out the bricks on the blacktopped cement.

Cap Square Sidewalk Update

... some kind of underlay was required before they poured concrete around the planters ...

... everything went smoothly ...

Pouring cement around the forms in order to frame the tree spots,
or whatever they're called.

The trucks paved the corner with ready-mix this afternoon.

Pouring concrete in the rain.
I wouldn't have thought that would be practicable,
but there they are doing it.

Ye gods! There's a cherry picker setting up next to the big oak on the corner!
It's curtains for the old wood!

False alarm. He only took down the lamp post.
*whew*

The hardhats moved in on a stretch of cap square yesterday morning and
in the space of just a few hours, made short work of pulling up the sidewalk.