Barrels on Route 8, but No Weekend/Night Work — Here's Why
Confused about why the cones on State Route 8 were set up all weekend but there wasn't any construction going on? Read on ...
Service Director Mike Miller said orange barrels remained on State Route 8 over the weekend and at night without any active road work being done because taking them down cuts into half a day's work.
Construction in the southbound lanes on State Route 8 began at the beginning of the month to patch up cracks and potholes on the highway.
Councilman Mike Rasor said he's received some complaints about the cones being up and no work was being done during the day on weekdays.
"We have to leave the barrels up overnight and on the weekend," said Miller. "The reason being is it takes two hours to set the zone up ... another two hours to take it down, which leaves me with three hours to work then."
Leaving the cones up will "hopefully keep this prject to the shortest period possible," he added.
Construction should be finished within two weeks, he said June 14.
Andrew Freborg
2:13 pm on Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Recentley returned from South Dakota - a "right to work" state. We rented a cabin on a rural road in the south/central Black Hills.
Over the course of 1 week we saw more progress in total reconstruction of a washout section of road than we typically see here in 3 months, Also, after a midweek hailstorm washed part of a recently laid gravel roadbed away, the crew was out at 8PM and worked through the night to repair the damage for the next days workcrew.
Years ago saw similar hard work in northern, rural Minnesota.
Road repair to a large extent is a construction boondoggle.
(let the flaming of me begin)
joe ponikarovsky
8:59 am on Wednesday, June 20, 2012
so...this "construction" has been going on for about three weeks now. between my wife and i, we pass through this area four times every weekday between the hours of 6-9, 11-2 and 3-8. neither of us have ever seen anyone out in this barreled-off zone, let alone anyone actually doing any work.
so i ask you: if they aren't working during the day (as stated above), they aren't working at night and they aren't working on the weekends, when ARE they working?
Tom Tucker
11:40 am on Wednesday, June 20, 2012
They aren't working nights and weekends because it would cost more. Plain and simple. This isn't new.