Workers may have to leave because of an accident, to get materials, or wait on trucks to be loaded or unloaded. Our people may be working underneath a bridge, or in the superstructure of one. Sometimes a lane may be blocked off to let concrete dry. We begin easing traffic out of the lane we're working in about three tenths of a mile from our work site for safety. This should tell even an inattentive driver to move over in time.
Safety is the primary reason why speeds are lowered.
Sometimes, however, cars may travel slower than the posted speed limit because drivers are inattentive or want to watch what we're doing. Speeds that seem unreasonably slow to drivers look just the opposite to workers who are stationary on the job site. Our employees want to be helpful and courteous, but if you stop for directions at a highway work site, you are putting yourself in great danger of a rear-end crash. Our workers are concerned for your immediate safety as well as theirs and attempt to prevent accidents by keeping the flow of traffic moving. No, just the roadways which the State owns or those which are maintained under interlocal agreements.