I remember when I was younger not seeing too much of it. When they did set
up to do it, they most certainly didn't seem to have stretches of orange cones and
barrels for miles, just a sufficient amount around where they were working. I wish it could go back to that way-after all why slow people down and make them mad just to work on a tiny part of the road? And if they are doing all this work-why not just lay down the foundation for another lane?
Another thing that upsets me about it is the fact that no one makes them concentrate on one part of the road at one time. They're in all parts of the city, making people late for things as they weren't forewarned or keep traffic backed up for blocks or even miles.
I was told this was due to using different construction crews. They can't all work together because they aren't from the same company. I still don't see why they can't make them all work on one road though-they could get most of the work on it done in one day and then move on to the next one. I just don't see the sense in wasting everybody's time with the scattering of these people just about everywhere.
If that isn't annoying enough, I have seen back roads that haven't been fixed in years. There are nice cracks, dips, and potholes on them. Why do they need so much to fix the other roads so often, when these roads lie nearly untouched?
Maybe it's the amount of traffic-but then again I remember going to Milwaukee
for a few years in a row and the downtown area never got fixed and that seemed to be because of the larger amount of traffic. What gives? I'm confused.
I suppose I will never understand the logic of the construction industry. Maybe they like to exaggerate their work and clog up the roads just to annoy other people for fun. I can imagine them laughing as the cars drive by and saying, “We made you slow down!
Ha, ha!”
Oh well, I just hope that the road construction does not get even more exaggerated in the future. It's bad enough having to either far out of the way you were going or end up in a long line that could have been avoided by better placement of the warning equipment. Hopefully the reader's city is better than mine!
