Progress sometimes seems like one step forward, two steps back. Especially when it's road construction. Abilene has its share of that now, as improvements are under way to the Winters Freeway and to sections of U.S. 277 and I-20. Many Abilenians find their normal travel routes disrupted.
Traffic congestion causes delays.
Drivers get impatient. Blood pressures rise. And all this is just a prelude to further construction, as the city prepares to enact the street improvements passed by the last bond election. We can take these temporary setbacks in stride, or we can make them worse with a bad attitude. If everyone backs off and slows down a little, we can all get through this rough patch more easily.