General Road and Highway Discussion

[SammyOES2]

I would bet that the expected value of 'negative health effects' is significantly higher with the extra km driven then the risk to construction workers in a case like this.

LOL I dunno... I think a worker's death is worse than adding a bunch of stress and taking minutes or hours of life from thousands of people. Even at an extra 1.5 million km of driving I doubt that is more than a rounding error in the amount of driving that people in this region do in 8 months. It's just likely too that drivers that use this route might opt to take shorter detours that take a few more minutes instead of driving cross-country.

You realize people die in car accidents, right?  And the more kms people drive, the more deaths occur.  And, even less concrete, people die from stress.

My point being there is some percentage chance that a construction worker dies when the road isn't closed.  There's some percentage chance that someone dies because of the extra kms being driven.  I don't think those percentage chances are actually particularly close - even if they're both really tiny.

I'm also not sure you understand that there are some set of people living in Conestogo that have no shorter detours available.  This isn't a city road.  It's a main route in a relatively rural area with a river nearby.