(05-09-2017, 09:53 PM)clasher Wrote: Without knowing where trips are originating and ending we have no idea if people are taking the shortest route or not... say people in Breslau are going to RIM park, the fastest way is probably ebycrest/sawmill despite the shortest route being through the city. There are many other possible trips and it seems like any back-of-the-envelope estimates of extra KM drive is just a wild guess. Everything is a trade-off and I think the only way to do all the work is to close the entire road. If they tried to do it in stages it would take twice as long and probably cost a lot more money and people would still detour because driving through a single lane with traffic-control peeps would still suck and someone would be complaining about those delays too.
We have a pretty good idea of the general effect of the detour and can come up with an order of magnitude approximation of the detour costs. I think a million is reasonable. Maybe its half a million, maybe it's 1.5 million. Either way, we're talking about a very significant cost (hundreds of thousands of dollars) that shouldn't be hand waved away just because we can't know the exact number.
It irritates me that people think this kind of logic is ok, because its just a small minority of people that have to accept 8 months of a ridiculous long detour that sucks a bunch of their time and money.
And I don't know enough about the actual construction work (I didn't even know about the detour until this weekend because its not a route I take regularly) to say if it needs to be a full closure this entire time (although from what I saw last year, I'm very skeptical). But there are clearly other options on the table that aren't being used that would really help here. I'm also curious to know who gets these 'official passes'.