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Re: 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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| 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.
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said by sansri88:Safety reasons. Construction companies do this all the time. Then they should stop.
said by sansri88: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. I agree with pende_tim  . That's why a const company would close a mile of lane. What kind of traffic accident could only be safeguarded against, by 8 miles of closed lane?
A traffic accident that puts the highway workers at direct risk, did not begin 8 miles ago.
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