Theme Day: What Bugs Me Most About My City

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What bugs me most in Seattle? Steel Plates in the Road: Many parts of Seattle seem to be under complete construction. A crane almost hit my car with a load on a pallet the other day. . .no flag person to be seen and traffic going full bore while the crane operator dangled a hook at curbside between the sidewalk and the street, lifted a pallet of bags of concrete, which swung toward me and dangled right overhead. If it's not a building going up, it's the street torn up and huge steel plates going on for blocks, some not settled completely. . .very noisy and jarring, and impossible to ride my bike on.

Now you can see what bugs folks all around the world. . .will there be a theme within this theme? Tour the world and find out by clicking the sites below. 50 cities are participating today, and we're all in different time zones, so keep that in mind as you travel the sites:

1 (Porto (Portugal) ) -2 (Stayton, OR (USA) ) -3 (Albuquerque, NM (USA) ) -4 (Tenerife (Spain) ) -5 (Greenville, SC (USA) ) -6 (Dubai (U.A.E.) ) -7 (Evry (France) ) -8 (Jakarta (Indonesia) ) -9 (London (UK) ) -10 (Sequim, WA (USA) ) -11 (Buenos Aires, (Argentina) ) -12 (Seattle, WA (USA) ) -13 (Minneapolis, MN (USA) ) -14 (Stavanger (Norway) ) -15 (Joplin , MO (USA) ) -16 (Nelson, New Zealand ) -17 (Milano, Italy ) -18 (Singapore (KeropokMan) ) -19 (La Antigua Guatemala (Guatemala) ) -20 (Nottingham UK ) -21 (Singapore by Zannnie (Singapore) ) -22 (Budapest (Hungary) ) -23 (Not Strictly Seattle, WA (USA) ) -24 (Bandung (Indonesia) ) -25 (Vantaa (Finland) ) -26 (Hyde (UK) ) -27 (Madrid by Dsole (Spain) ) -28 (Oulu (Finland) ) -29 (Saarbruecken (Germany) ) -30 (St. Paul [Carol] ) -31 (Sydney (Australia) ) -32 (Tokyo (Japan) ) -33 (Kyoto (Japan) ) -34 (Trujillo (Peru) ) -35 (Shanghai (China) ) -36 (Rotterdam (NL) ) -37 (Chicago, IL (USA) ) -38 (Nice, (France) ) -39 (Naples, Florida (USA) ) -40 (Hong Kong ) -41 (Santa Clara, CA (USA) ) -42 (Quito, Ecuador (South America) ) -43 (Cottage Grove, MN (USA) ) -44 (Paris, (France) ) -45 (Manila (Philippines) ) -46 (Brussels (Belgium) ) -47 (Auckland (New Zealand) ) -48 (Newcastle upon Tyne (England)) -49 (Houston, TX (USA) ) -50 (Sydney by Nathalie (Australia)) -