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Road work is the name of the game around Moncton these days, and the mature and gentle neighbourhood of Reade Street in the north end near The Moncton Hospital is alive with the chugging and banging of the paving crews these days.

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Bill Robb/This Week

A bright red construction machine shines through the green foliage at the end of Reade Street.

The bulk of the work is contained to the lower end of the street, just before the Katherine Wright Wellness Centre, no doubt causing some consternation to the many women who visit it each week, but you can still access the lower portion of the street by attacking it from West Lane.

Reade is a long street, starting at Mountain Road and continuing straight along all the way to the marshland at the end. It has an interesting mixture of buildings, many war-time homes, some remodeled so as to be unrecognizable, some apartment buildings, the occasional commercial enterprise and then more houses again.

Huge and glorious maples shade many portions of it, a delight for those of us continuing our neighbourhood walks on these very warm, summer days.

There is such a diversity of dwellings and yet all of it so delightfully blended into a pleasant neighbourhood on Reade, that it makes me think of the words of Kuo Hsi:

"It has been said that there are landscapes one can walk through, landscapes which can be gazed upon, landscapes in which one may dwell . . . Those fit for walking through or being gazed upon are not equal to those in which one may dwell or ramble."

Reade Street is a delightful street in the heart of the city in which one may dwell or ramble.