I'd meant to amend this entry several days ago, but time got away from me.
I'd posted how Colorado road workers were out on a Sunday, blocking a 6-mile stretch of road, despite the fact that the road looked quite fine.
Well...that's because it was fine. It had just been laid, as I found out the next day. I encountered more delay going up the highway on the holiday Monday, but this was road workers pouring concrete in another lane.
So I came to the conclusion that the lane closure that had irritated me the other day must have been because "they" want a newly poured concrete road to set undisturbed for 48 hours or more, before trucks start driving over it.
Now, as Terry Pratchett puts it in Thief of Time, (although I'm paraphrasing because that book is now hiding somewhere in my new house), New information calls for a new conclusion, but does not render incorrect the old conclusion, based on the knowledge had at the time.
In other words, just because I was wrong in the previous case about road workers being paid triple time for no good reason, isn't to say that they don't on average get paid a heckuva lot for standing around doing very little. (3 supervisors to 1 worker, etc.)
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