Wednesday, May 21, 2014

CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM

I'm driving southbound on route 495.  It's a Tuesday evening at 8:50 p.m.  The traffic is light.  The weather is clear.  All is right with the world. 

Until the construction.

For some reason the idiots in charge of the highway department think it's a grand idea to do construction on 2 of the 3 lanes of the highway at dinner time. 

People start slamming on brakes.  Trucks slide sideways and threaten to jackknife.

Ah, yes.  Some asshole's idea of routine maintenance.

On what planet does it make sense to shut down the only road that connects interstate 95 and 93?  Whose brilliant retirement plan idea is this?

Look, just have the workers do this overnight.  Nobody but random truckers and people with really suck-ass jobs will be using the road after 11 p.m.  The workers miss dinner with their families already working second shift.  Do this later -- not in the evening when many people are on the roads, stuck in a long line of traffic ... because you decide to have one effing lane open on the highway.

This is why I prefer driving the back roads.  I will not make the same mistake the next time I'm trying to get home from Amesbury on a Tuesday evening.  I should KNOW that some idiotic construction is taking place.  I mean, really.  Why would anyone think it makes more sense to travel the highway to get from point A to point B?

Suckers, that's who.  Suckers just like me.