Road Construction

Same areas for me, Chicago>Indiana, horrible amount of construction. Indianapolis decided to do multiple projects all at once apparently.

Same areas for me, Chicago>Indiana, horrible amount of construction. Indianapolis decided to do multiple projects all at once apparently.

What’s up with that funky detour going through Indianapolis east bound? Can’t get on 465, ramp is closed. Gotta go up 65 for a short distance, past Lucas Oil Stadium, near downtown and finally get spit out on 70 eastbound. Why is 465 closed?

Just in general, going through Indiana on 70 is like being put in a popcorn popper and then strapped to a roller coaster. Hold on tight!

Why is 465 closed?

Construction on the 465 and the 69 interchange.

East bound is closed now, in 3 weeks it will be the same closure on the west bound side. 🙃

The whole reason I took an extra board run was so I could get out of Indiana at least some of the time. But I've spent all most all my time there anyway filling in for drivers.

I have not seen much road construction in my limited area of northern California and Michael says he hasn't seen anything special. I think California may be too broke to do the work that needs to be done. On Friday I saw CalTrans crew with signs about a highway lane closed and be prepared to stop but there was no work going on. A few hours later I passed in the other direction and still saw the signs and a crew near the signs but no construction crew. Cost cutting resulting in only signs but no equipment? A lot of work needs to be done to repair winter storm damage but this state went from a big budget surplus to a big deficit pretty quick. I keep seeing people post about having to replace tires because of pothole damage and my wife just replaced one last week.

While on the subject of road construction, I have a question.

In some construction zones with two lanes, they want all trucks to be in the left lane. What is the reasoning behind this?

I should have said : “With two lanes in each direction…”

In some construction zones with two lanes, they want all trucks to be in the left lane. What is the reasoning behind this?

Indiana seems to do this a lot, they shift the lanes onto the shoulder. Usually, the shoulder isn't built to the same standards as the regular road so it can't take the constant weight on it. Also moving the trucks to the left gives more room for merging traffic.

Exactly this. The shoulders themselves aren't engineered to be able to take traffic at speed, for more than a few hundred yards at most (think emergency stopping situations.) So by shifting the trucks to the left lane, they are still on the road surface that can handle 80k lbs at speed, and the smaller lighter cars and pickups can safely use the shoulder lane. It also tends to be a smidge wider with the placement of the jersey barriers.

In some construction zones with two lanes, they want all trucks to be in the left lane. What is the reasoning behind this?

Indiana seems to do this a lot, they shift the lanes onto the shoulder. Usually, the shoulder isn't built to the same standards as the regular road so it can't take the constant weight on it. Also moving the trucks to the left gives more room for merging traffic.

I hadn’t been in Pennsylvania much as of late, but I just got a big dose of it the last few days. I’m gonna quit complaining about Indiana after this PA trip. I did a delivery in Philly near that I95 disaster but wasn’t affected much at all.

Pennsylvania has two types of highways. 1) Highways being worked on. 2) Highways that need to be worked on. Lol.

We don't have summer in Colorado, we have pothole season and road construction preceded and followed by 9 to 14 months of all four seasons daily.