Don't You Just Hate Road Works!!

I agree, they should do the road works during the weekend.

We don't travel much unless we want to so if there is road work we can put off traveling.

It is not that bad at all. Over here, infrastructure building is on all the time, and sometimes road work can continue for years and years while they dig tunnels for the trains.

We have major road works near our town at the moment and it is adding to our travelling time.

I hate road works too especially when I am the one driving. But well, looking at the big picture, roadworks aim to improve our daily travel.

Road woks do disrupt traffic alot but remember, they are done for the betterment of the current situation

Yeah at times it becomes very difficult for people like you and me and road works are going on. But if we think otherwise these kind of works are very much important for the development.

Road works persons should apply the Chinese way of handling traffic--- either work at night when almost everyone is not travelling or create an effective by-pass to avoid traffic jam in day working hours. Once, I spent about 1 hour and 45 minutes on the road, now imagine, arriving late for a job interview. Oops! I lot the damn job because I was not able to come up with a good reason to explain how 2 hour went unaccounted for and who should have carried the blame. It was not good, but this is life and I have to live it the way it comes... Men At Work! Till another incident.

We may not like it but the work must be done so it's best to make the best of it.Hopefully the work will be done quickly.

Yes I hate roadworks, but thank goodness it isn't roadwork season here in Canada at the moment.

There is a lot of roadwork going on here as well. It disrupts traffic and hurts the businesses along the roads as well.

I wonder if they schedule working on roads just so, it will disrupt traffic? :)

Here we say we have two seasons. Winter and road construction. Construction can't be done when the ground is frozen so must be done as much as possible in the warm months. And the freezing/thawing is very hard on roads, so always a lot of construction all summer long.

i know the feeling i hope for the during of the works you get to work on time.

We have those often here too and they can be a pain but atleast the roads are being worked on

Atleast search engines provide you with the status of roads. Here motorists have to face it without knowing what is in store.

@gudheart,I agree with you it's too irritating,but fortunately the roads I walk along everyday are now in a very good shape and no road work is going on.Even the road that runs from in front of my house is in a good condition.

Doing road work when people are trying to get to work is ridiculous. It's always a mystery to me why it isn't done during off hours, overnight or as you said, on the weekends.

It always seems like it takes to long as well. Like they are trying to milk the job or something,

Yes, they are unpredictable and annoying but you are good by planning your journey ahead of time.