Nearly any Michigan driver can tell you a story about a heinous traffic back-up caused by construction. Roadwork is a necessity of driving on our roads and highways. Eventually they wear out and need repair. But going through construction zones is almost never a breeze.
Compounding the pain of a work zone is the daily morning and evening commute. Some locations, particularly larger urban areas, schedule the most disruptive construction jobs in the overnight hours. Should Michigan deploy this strategy more often?
When radio personality Howard Stern ran for governor of New York in 1994 he famously made the pledge to make all road work on expressways in the NYC area happen overnight…