Question about road construction...

[BlasterBob]

I know there is a current law here in CO that dictates when you see a cop stopped on the shoulder of the road, with his emergency lights lit up or not, construction truck, a service vehicle or even a disabled personal vehicle on the shoulder, we are supposed to, by law, SLOW down, give them a wide berth and occupy the opposite lane IF at all possible and if that cannot be accomplished, then at least really slow the hell down. Of all the people failing to give the right away to vehicles parked along the shoulder, it seems the vast majority of the offending drivers are (sorry to say it) women drivers. Same thing with entering an Interstate highway. Yes, the traffic already on the Interstate has the right away when we are entering on an entrance ramp but you'd think the traffic already on the highway would get over in the left lane, when possible and practical, if for no other reason than for their own safety or at least courtesy. Sure a bunch of damn dummies driving our roads nowadays.
Finally, I have been driving for the past 61 years and have NEVER had an accident but have received a total of two moving violation tickets in all those years. I have never, in all my years, seen so many people who totally disregard the double yellow line (no passing zones) and STOP signs as I see down here in Trinidad. Seems to be a total disregard for so many basic traffic laws down here. You guys ever get down to Trinidad, better really hone up on your best defensive driving.

[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!

[encorehunter]

I have never, in all my years, seen so many people who totally disregard the double yellow line (no passing zones).

I saw this yesterday on Main Street right in front of the Police Station. He went around one vehicle to get stuck behind another.

[BlasterBob]

I saw this yesterday on Main Street right in front of the Police Station. He went around one vehicle to get stuck behind another.

Bet he felt really good about the five or six seconds he gained.

[Monky]

You guys ever get down to Trinidad, better really hone up on your best defensive driving.

I can tell you he's telling the truth!

I can also say it wasn't me.

[lpgasman]

I come up on a construction zone from a speed limit of 30. I slow down to 10 (20below the speed limit) you with me? a guy with a slow sign is going crazy, moving his arm up and down, as to motion slow down. My problem isn't that he is telling me to slow down, it is that if you want me to do 5mph put a fu&$ing 5mph sign up. Seems simple to me.my .02

[BlasterBob]

I come up on a construction zone from a speed limit of 30. I slow down to 10 (20below the speed limit) you with me? a guy with a slow sign is going crazy, moving his arm up and down, as to motion slow down. My problem isn't that he is telling me to slow down, it is that if you want me to do 5mph put a fu&$ing 5mph sign up. Seems simple to me.my .02

This is something that really buggs the hell out of my wife. We can be entering a construction zone speed of 30 MPH and can slow down to an absolute crawl (like 5 MPH to almost a complete stop) and the flagman will still wave his arms frantically to go even slower. Guess they are like robots or zombies.

[lpgasman]

This is something that really buggs the hell out of my wife. We can be entering a construction zone speed of 30 MPH and can slow down to an absolute crawl (like 5 MPH to almost a complete stop) and the flagman will still wave his arms frantically to go even slower. Guess they are like robots or zombies.

Glad I'm not the only one.

[cstone]

I come up on a construction zone from a speed limit of 30. I slow down to 10 (20below the speed limit) you with me? a guy with a slow sign is going crazy, moving his arm up and down, as to motion slow down. My problem isn't that he is telling me to slow down, it is that if you want me to do 5mph put a fu&$ing 5mph sign up. Seems simple to me.my .02

It's all about the cardio man. You have to get the arms and legs going in a vigorous manner