Czech Construction

We are blessed to live both north and south of of 2 parks. One, Letna park, overlooks the river and all of downtown. The other, Stromovka Park (which literally means tree park), is one of the bigger parks here in Prague, and a great place to go running, and I often walk through it to get to and from school.

We are also blessed to live smack in a construction site. Just a couple blocks from us is construction that is being done to create an underground tunnel. As a result, some of the roads are ripped up and therefore, trams aren't running. It is a little inconvenient, but it has been like that since we moved, so we don't know anything different.

Part of this tunnel runs underneath Stromovka, and the agreement was that they could build under the park as long as it was done underground - no construction vehicles, etc. actually in the park.

Sounds great, right. Well all this underground construction caused some sinkholes in Stromovka, so now they have this:

Oh well, they tried. Gotta love the irony.