NEW ORLEANS — The video was posted to the popular satirical Instagram page "Look at This F***in Street."
It was submitted by Maddiy Garn, who said she was out for an evening walk when she came upon the stuck truck. It has racked up thousands of "likes."
Cell phone video shows a USPS truck stuck in thick construction mud on Painters Street in Gentilly on Monday. Neighbors say it has been a common sight since road work began in their area months ago.
Sheila Brown told WWL Louisiana this was the fourth time she and her neighbors have seen a delivery truck get stuck, along with countless cars. “I knocked on the door and said, ‘come see, come see, there’s another one,” she said.
Brown lives on one of six blocks of Painters Street on which the City is completely replacing the street. The project began in February.
Neighbors say they are glad for the street improvements. “The road was pretty banged up before,” said Dylan Favre, who lives on the same block as Brown, “but it is a little frustrating, especially when you have groceries and that sort of thing, having to haul them.”
Brown says delivery drivers also tend to park around the corner from the construction zone. But the ones who try to drive down Painters often find themselves stuck in inches of construction mud.
That is especially true after heavy rain, like New Orleans experienced over the weekend. “It was funny,” Brown said of Monday’s trapped truck, “it was sad, but it was funny.”
The City’s website lists the estimated completion date of the Painters Street project as “Jul-Sep 2024.”
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