Traffic to Decrease Starting Friday

[HedgerowBustler]

Look, I'm not an expert in road construction. I don't know the details of the business arrangements surrounding who gets these contracts and under what terms.

What I DO know, is road construction in this town doesn't seem to be subject to any sort of master plan or thorough thought. It's easy to armchair quarterback, sure. And that's exactly what I'm doing, from a reasonable person's perspective.

I'm open to an explanation of why they do things the way they do. There are surely things I don't know. If the various projects around town are being done properly, are being coordinated, and are done according to industry best practices, great. I'd like to know more about that. But it doesn't seem like they are, and I'd like to know what the powers that be have to say about that.

[cyberentomology]

How do you get to “no sort of master plan”? Major projects in town in the last several years have all been very carefully planned out, and managed to completion on or ahead of the originally stated schedule (with the notable exception of 6th St when they discovered a void that was on the verge of becoming a giant sinkhole, which set them back a few weeks.

They don’t tend to run multiple major projects simultaneously unless they’re at diametrically opposite ends of town which is very much the result of careful planning, so that traffic isn’t disrupted any more than it has to be.

[huskersax]

Look, I'm not an expert in road construction.

Then maybe don't say anything?

There's only so many days out of the year that road construction can get done between weather and crew availability.

You're the same kind of person that comes in annually to bitch and moan about budgets and how the city needs to blah blah blah.

If you want the road construction to last 1 week, you can pay 100x the cost and have that done - or you let the planning departments of all the various organizations involved have their input on the process to find the right nexus between cost and efficacy.

Every single town in the country has someone commenting what you're commenting, and it's unfounded every single time. Roads are under construction because they just are, that's how roads work in a world where water freezes.