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Traffic Cones

Safety reasons. Construction companies do this all the time.

Example: My dad was a project engineer/manager on the Tappan Zee Bridge back when they had a major deck replacement project. Lane closures started a decent bit away, about 2 miles (and 2 lanes were knocked out). As they were cleaning up for the night, there was a MAJOR accident where someone was speeding and ended up in the construction lanes, crashed badly, and killed most/all the people in the vehicle.

It's for the workers' safety they do this.

(That and they must have been doing work earlier on a different part of the roadway)
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Sriram Satish
NYU Stern School of Business
Faculty of Arts and Science CIT

I do understand the safety requirement of closing a lane to protect the workers, But for 8 miles?????? There was a crash truck about 50 yards from the actual work so if any fool ended in in the closed lane, this would have stopped them where the workers were actually stationed.. It was not even like the lane was solid closed for the 8 miles, there were 2 exit/entrance ramps in that 8 miles so even though it was closed, they had traffic crossing these lanes.

And there was no other work going on in the 8 miles. When I cam back about 1PM still just working on that bridge.

Tim
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The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.

reply to pende_tim
There may be some other construction within that 8 mile area that may not be obvious. Or there will be work later and they just do the entire area so they can prepare.

You can check with local or state or whatever officials to see just what construction is scheduled.

reply to pende_tim
Here in Texas there are some regulations from the state concerning the placement of cones. The length of the cone placement is determined by the speed limit on the road.

Not acquainted with NJ, but you might want to check with the state to see what the requirements for cones and traffic control is for road work.

As a side note, around here, there are always a few that see the requirement to change lanes and do not react to it until the lane ends, and then f up traffic by trying to bull their way in to the open lanes.

reply to sansri88