Defense of Traffic Act

Instead of picking on gays, here's something that could benefit all of us:

Defense of Traffic Act:

Any construction that requires the closure or partial closure of any road or highway shall be done between the hours of 10 pm and 5 am.

Violation of this act shall be punishable by death.

What say you?

After driving thru some constrution this morning, I saw a sign that said "END CONSTRUCTION".

I agree.

With the result being that the restricted hours (non-daylight ones no less) make the project take that much longer to complete.

No thanks, I'll deal with them while they're there and let them start and finish it as promptly as possible.

I'd still like to know why it's taking the Nutley/Clifton road departments three months to do whatever they're doing to River road. Getting sick of the orange cones and steel plates.

Orange road cones let me know when winter is over. Do you really want to take that away from me?

They seem to grow here in winter too!

Agreed, but then all those daylight hours would be going to waste.

All major road construction projects should be shift work, 24 hours a day 7 days a week until the project is completed.

We have a couple of projects here that have been under construction for nearly ten years and they're just now starting to finish them.

In light of recent local events, I'd prefer that construction and repair work on infrastructure not be done in the dark

With the arc lights they use, they're working in what's virtually normal daylight anyway...
This is definitely far too sensible an idea ever to occur to a politician.

Was it 5 or BL 80?

As promptly as possible?! That's a good one marathon!

I-35!

I vote we get rid of all the unnecessary pork barral construction projects...that would solve 99% of the problem.

You think that altering the construction schedule to seven hours of darkness a day will change that for the better?

On the busier highways here in California, they're already working at night.

I want to expand this everywhere. For example, the road I live off of was a two lane country road until Sacramento suddenly bloomed northward. In the last two years what used to be rice fields are now houses, as far as the eye could see.

Now that road is closed off at three different locations due to construction, with no real alternate route available.

There's NO reason they couldn't be doing this stuff at night. Traffic here in Sac is already nasty during rush hour. Someone sneezes on I-5 or I-80 and all of the Central Valley locks up. Now they have to fuckup the side roads as well?

Leaving aside the fact that, while accurate, that sounds just wrong...
I say again: arc lights.

But then you get people complaining about noise.

Archangel's right. We should let the roads disintegrate.

Ten, nine, eight...

I think he's talking about seven hours of work per day, which would happen under my proposal.

I'm sure they could actually manage it if the workers actually, you know, worked instead of standing around.

Vis-a-vis any road crew I've ever seen, that's a pretty big "if."

I wouldn't want an overpass worked on only in the dark (even a "lit" dark) any more than I'd want a building constructed in the dark.

Y'know, they've invented these things called lightbulbs.

And yet they seem to manage such feats just fine in my area...

Haven't had any bridges collapse in MY state, after all. How about you?

Yes they have.

So why not just change the work schedule of everyone contributing to rush hour to nightshifts instead?

Because we all know how brightly the sun shines underneath an overpass -!

Yes...after it's built

The sun shines *under* an overpass...after it's built...

Just when I think your posts can't be any further reductio ad absurdem, you find a whole new level...

The idea that someone would propose to alleviate their inconvenience by turning someone else's schedule upside down, as this thread does, gets the replies it deserves

Yet, oddly, such a thing is done here in Florida without any trouble.

Explanation?

Love how you're always the judgmental arbiter of what people have coming, yet act so cute and passive about it.

Arrogance indulged. I never said it didn't happen