Why is the lane closed?

To piss you off about the waste of your tax dollars.

I think they close the lane so they have some place to put the "Lane Closed" sign.

Another thing that pisses me off is they leave the "Flagman Ahead" and "Men Working" kind of signs up after they go home, bastards.

This reminds me of when they came out with those state quarters. You know, they left old George on one side but but some state logo on the other.
Most of which were horribly designed and uninspiring. Being a Tennessean, I made a suggestion they put one of those orange and white striped barrel sized traffic cones on the coin with the logo . "welcome to Tennessee-road construction for the next 502 miles". Which is the distance between Memphis and Bristol, Tn. on I-40. The State was not amused and put some Elvis-Blues etc. crap on the coin. I have always felt my proposal was much closer to the true experience of traveling through the state.

Another thing that pisses me off is they leave the "Flagman Ahead" and "Men Working" kind of signs up after they go home, bastards.

Daryl-
We have a lot of guys at work that are guilty of that. It's called laziness. A lot of the cities within San Diego County don't allow them to stay up after quittin' time, but in the ones that don't give a shit, the signs stay up. If anything, it's stupid to leave them up because other contractors come by and steal our signs and those things aren't cheap. Usually it's the Mexican contractors...

I always figured it was a way for the contractor to funnel money into the coffers of the corrupt politician's family relation who owns the company that rents out the barricades, cones, and signs. Said relative then funnels a kickback to his relative the elected "representative of the constituents".

but, I'm a little cynical.

In my pipe laying days (natural gas lines you perves) I shut down many a road. We actually had an old lady drive through our barricades one day. We had a 1.5' wide ditch cut all the way across Galbraith St. Apparently she thought she was driving a hover car, and drove right into our ditch. We pulled out her car out with our backhoe and the local rag sent out a photog to take pictures and we ended up in the Kerrville Daily Times.

Looks like I 95 through New York up into New England

In Nevada they have twenty miles of 55 MPH speed limit because one guy is using a backhoe in the median. Double fines in construction zones. Really sucks.

Well, that aint Kansas. Here they detour the whole works for about fifty miles for a year, then complain because the side roads get chewed to hell and gone as soon as the truckers figure out which farm roads will get them past the construction.

Here, we have two seasons: the rainy season and road construction season.

as my son says

"Time for a UNION break"

"Men Working"
Here in Doity Joisey you'll see one man working and five guys holding up shovels. (So they can cool off properly). WTF.

We have 2 kinds of roads in Tennessee-Obsolete, & Under Construction. State workers all follow the formula laid down for state groundskeepers in the Roosevelt New Deal era, to wit: 2 A-comin, 2 A-goin'. 2 A-shittin', 2 A-mowin'.

State Highway Worker Follies.....

I had a very good friend who before he passed away worked for the State Highway Dept in North West Pa. His job during the summer month`s was driving supply trucks to & from the worksites from the garage terminal.

One story he related to me was there was a crew assigned to do highway cutting on Route 20 just west of Girard. The crew consisted of 6 men ,two flagmen, one saw operator, two laborer`s & a supervisor.

I am sure all of you have seen a concrete wetsaw in operation ....it takes a lot of water. Since there were no water hydrants near the area being worked on , Ray`s job was transportation of water to run the saw at the work site. The truck held 500 gallons of water & would provide enough water to run the saw for about 35 minutes. The garage terminal was some 25 miles from the job site so the crew would work for 35 minutes then stop to wait for Ray to unhook the water lines, drive to the terminal,get a new load of water, return with the new load of water,hook up the water lines ....then work for another 35 minutes then start the process again & again & again. A round trip for Ray took about 1 &1/2 hours.
Ray would haul a maximum of 5 loads of water per day per day ,usually only 4 & the road crew only worked about 2&1/2 hours per day.They were there on route 20 working for about 3 month`s.
The obvious solution would have been to work with either the local municipality or Fire Department to supply the water, the job could have been completed in about one month.......But the Union would not allow it.

After the minnesota bridge collapse they added a lane to the main artery they told everyone to use. Traffic on that road suddenly had less congestion. Now that the bridge is repaired they are going to close the extra lane so they can have their congestion back.

Kind of reminds me of the democratic Congress.

Let me take a guess at this. The lane is closed so that the first person who comes by with a little bit of sense will move the stupid sign and then get a ticket? Isn't that how they do their fundraisers? ;)

Dudley1- or have three water trucks in rotation. 2 more union jobs...whatadeal

I have a sincere message to unions all over the place:

BLOW ME!

Joisey is even better, they don't need no steenking signs.

On the GSP yesterday, in that 23 mile "express" lane in the middle. Traffic literally slowed to a stop, all three lanes northbound.

After about 3 miles of creep-and-stop, we got back to cruising speed. No signs. No construction. No accident. Apparently, somebody was in danger of being at work on time...

Patrick.....

Three trucks in rotation? If they were not smart enough to use local municipality water or the fire department ,what makes you think they would use more then one truck? I cannot speak for current operating procedure`s but it used to be the rule maintenance/repair of damage to the snow plow blades & attachments from winter snowplowing requirement`s was not started until after the first snowfall of the following year.

Tell me how you posted your thought on to the sign.Was it photoshop or another program? Please share your source of doing this.
Thanks,

Gary

Gary - Not a clue. The picture was sent to me by a reader.