General Road and Highway Discussion

[clasher]

If I understand the stuff posted earlier in the thread about the passes it seems to me the people living in Conestogo would have access to their homes with those special passes. It's the through-traffic that suffers... and I think the people that planned this whole thing knew all the things we know about it and probably had access to some numbers to justify this decision. Even if someone drove this detour every day for the whole 8 months it would add what, 5000km to their driving for that year... that seems like a lot to me but over a lifetime of driving it isn't that much.

I just don't understand what you think a good decision would be for this? Assuming the construction people aren't lying and they have to completely close the road what is your alternative?