Defense of Traffic Act

If it bothers those workers soooo much, they can quit.

Or strike.

It must not, therefore, bother them enough to do this.

Which would seem to be the case, as so many people readily work the "graveyard shift" in multiple industries!

True, hence the suggestion in post #23

So it's better to inconvenience the vast majority rather than the slim minority?

If it's your inconvience, it's more appropriate for you to remedy the situation than to expect someone else to.

How very Randian, no?

And indeed I (or rather the Florida DOT) has!

I dunno. I'd think a road crew would rather work in the dark when it's cooler than out under the hot sun.

But that's just me.

I tend to think so too.

There is, after all, a reason why we have to quit working at 2 PM when we're doing construction jobs.

The night shift for you when you show up for work on the road crew.

But do you speak for everybody?

No, but you know who does in this case?

Their union, OMG!

has the union stepped in and said "no" to this?

Maybe if I saw construction workers actually, you know, working out there on all those cordoned off areas, I'd actually agree with you.

What really irritates me about construction is how they decide to start 10 projects all at the same time, but only have the manpower to actually work on a couple at a time (or do half-assed work on half of them at the same time). I'm sure it has to do with gov't restrictions on construction money, but then we need to rewrite the laws regarding that.

In any case, if a section of highway or road is blocked off for construction, then I expect to see some fucking construction actually going on (every day, like a real job, until the job is complete), instead of weeks or months of bulldozers sitting idol. Fuck that shit.

As Rosencrantz mentioned...talk to the union.

That's probably how phantom should proceed, for that matter

A salient point, and one you failed to address yourself

It's the drivers' tax dollars. So yeah, I think the drivers, through their representatives, have a right to decide when the road gets worked on.

Why would I? I'm no fan of unions

Just because I pay for a meal at a restaurant (and hence indirectly pay their wages), that doesn't mean I get to make the employee schedule

And yet they would represent what you claim is a grievance these men ought to have, and protect them from brutal taxpayers like myself!

Technically, you do! See: Denny's, IHOP, Wendy's, Taco bell, Steak and Shake, etc, etc....

If only that were all

Any organization with power will try to take MORE power. That doesn't mean it shouldn't exist at all.