General Road and Highway Discussion

[clasher]

It's far safer for the workers to close the road to traffic, people still run over construction workers in this day and age.

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.