05-10-2017, 08:46 AM
Looking at Flax Mill drive on streetview I really think using as a detour would probably mean repaving that road too, looks pretty rough and it's not very wide.
I don't think the cost of this detour was just hand-waved away, there really isn't any to replace the water main under the road without closing it completely. It seems to me that if it's possible to leave a road open during construction they usually do that. I like the implication made somewhere up thread that the people that plan construction aren't affected by those decisions, the engineers and planners all drive everywhere too and they get stuck in traffic like the rest of us common people.
It's far safer for the workers to close the road to traffic, people still run over construction workers in this day and age.
I don't think the cost of this detour was just hand-waved away, there really isn't any to replace the water main under the road without closing it completely. It seems to me that if it's possible to leave a road open during construction they usually do that. I like the implication made somewhere up thread that the people that plan construction aren't affected by those decisions, the engineers and planners all drive everywhere too and they get stuck in traffic like the rest of us common people.
It's far safer for the workers to close the road to traffic, people still run over construction workers in this day and age.