Question about road construction...

[WETWRKS]

Ok...I am not much of a ranted but here goes.

So they come out and rip everything up and put up signs about construction zones and lower the speed limit...and then abandon the site for a good 6 months. No work gets done. None of the equipment moves. No one there even surveying. Nothing. Frankly I begin to suspect this is nothing but an excuse to lower speed limits.

[Ronin13]

BP, well said, like I said, I understand it, and I follow the law- we didn't have cops or cop cars while I was working with the Jeffco paving crew back when I was younger, we pretty much had a really big guy with a slow/stop sign and we all pretty much vowed to stop and beat a driver to death if he got hit by a stupid person.

Ok...I am not much of a ranted but here goes.

So they come out and rip everything up and put up signs about construction zones and lower the speed limit...and then abandon the site for a good 6 months. No work gets done. None of the equipment moves. No one there even surveying. Nothing. Frankly I begin to suspect this is nothing but an excuse to lower speed limits.

Revenue generation. I guess they're not paid by the job but paid by the days they work. I agree with this, and I hate it. They've had 3 projects over by my place since I moved in last Sept! One is the Lakewood lightrail due to be complete in oh about 15 years. The other is more work on a intersection off 6th and Simms that they completed some time ago and are now doing something else on (????). And then another that calls for lane closures but I never see anything being done, or any changes to the scenery... ?

Construction zone rant on:

1) People that see the closed lane signs for a mile and a half, but insist on screaming up the lane that is going to be closed all the way up to the cones, and then barge right into the next lane, thereby absolutely destroying any type of traffic flow, need to be cites, convicted, and vaporized, on the spot.

2) Crews that are working at night on one side of the interstate need to focus their trillion candlepower worklights ON THEIR WORK AREA, not aim them into the eyes of drivers on the opposite side of the highway.

3) Just because there is a lane closure does not mean you should set up lawn chairs and a barbecue grill as you pass through the work zone. Stopping and gawking at the water main break isn't helping to fix it. Move along at a safe speed, and pay fucking attention to the vehicle in front of you, so you don't asshole it and create an even bigger traffic snarl.

4) Work zones should have the ability to jam all cell phone signals within a 250 ft radius.

+1! I like the way you think! It's about 5% construction (and whoever is giving these guys a freaking decade to get the project done) and 95% idiot drivers who aren't considerate, that screw the whole system up!