...right after the Western Blvd. exit. Anyone else get caught up in this?

I've known them to do lane closures and road work at night specifically to avoid 5 mile backups, but the guys calling the shots on this project seem to think that it's ok to shut down a main road at 3:00 and 4:00 in the afternoon. Just long enough to have the traffic piled up before the commute.

6/5/2009 11:45:02 AM

so glad i'm leaving work at 3. i don't take the beltline anyway, but there will be people trying to avoid it and using the roads i usually do.

6/5/2009 11:46:15 AM

It was yesterday and two other random days (can't remember which). It isn't consistent and always comes without warning.

6/5/2009 11:48:44 AM

its usually only really bad on the beltline between glenwood and wade exits. so maybe the dispersal of cars around the hillsborough exit will even it out.

6/5/2009 11:50:28 AM

nvm, i thought you meant they were doing it today

6/5/2009 12:18:12 PM

Could be today for all I know, they show up randomly. It would be nice to get a report from people in the area so I can avoid this.

6/5/2009 12:33:42 PM

Is it a full paving crew, or are they just patching up the highway?

6/5/2009 12:39:02 PM

They are repairing a bridge (Melbourne Rd. http://tinyurl.com/oe9283). I don't slow down to rubberneck when it's my turn at the head of the 'why are they going so slow, no one is in front of them anymore' line, so I can only assume there's 2 guys out there working and the other dozen are supervising.


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6/5/2009 12:44:42 PM

they've been doing this for like 2 weeks.. sometimes at noon.

6/5/2009 1:14:28 PM