I have to say that overall Deva is a very pleasant place to live except for one thing, the tracks! We are staying with Cristian's mom who has a house in a neighborhood which is on the other side of the railroad tracks. To get anywhere by foot (and we don't have a car) we must cross the tracks. This would be ok except for the fact that the crossing is broken and is now a hazard. We must step on broken slabs of cement which teeter when we step on them. This has caused many an able-bodied person to break a leg, but it is particularly treacherous for us as Cristian has some motor problems. Every day we go to town we have to go through over these tracks which are like going through a mine field. Will we step on the wrong slab and fall and break something? Will someone come and help us cross (as it is easier with two people helping him)? Why is this the case? The railway dismantled the crossing which had existed for a least forty years, with the argument that it wasn't the proper place for a crossing. The city council approved a pedestrian bridge over the tracks but some idiot who claims he owns the property where the foot of the bridge should be is disputing it. A whole neighborhood of people, including an an architect for the city, live on this side of the tracks. There is a church whose worshipers, old an young, must cross these tracks, many of whom have gotten injured. To add insult to all of this injury, we must also wait for the cargo trains which randomly decided to stop right at our crossing, making us wait 15 minutes to cross in either direction. Stupid CFR!!!!
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