New pavement!

It is a big day in the life of the hard working expats of Atyrau! We now have a sidewalk to walk on all the way from home to the office and back! It is no longer an endless collection of uneven mud and clay! Over the summer the city have slowly but gracefully been upgraded with sidewalks laid with grey and red pavement stones, and all the curb stones have been repainted white. The last stretch to be finished to complete our path was just outside the office, between our office building and the Ideal Grocery store. And we even got a traffic light up last week! Pretty amazing! So now we can cross the road without being used as human targets by white Ladas driving at high speed!
And to add to this loooong list of amazing infrastructure-news, I must inform that the crazy big round fountain and rose-patch over the bridge in Asia is now a official roundabout. They have dug up the rose-bed and asphalted in stead, but left the fountain. The roundabout rules are still not fully in place, the signs are up, but lot of cars still stop inside the roundabout, giving way to the other cars driving into the roundabout. Pretty chaotic the whole thing, but amazingly it works in its own impossible way!