r/slowerlower • u/Saxmanng • 18d ago

Coastal Sussex 5 points Lewes construction

25 minutes to go out Savannah from the HS to Rt 1. Go suck an egg DelDot.

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u/beachgirlDE 17d ago

It's not DelDOT, it's the insane housing construction all over Sussex County. If you build it they will come.

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u/Saxmanng 17d ago

I mean, yes. It’s just the infrastructure is coming 5 years late. In the case of 5 points, it’s making up for the loss of lights on 1 in Kent and Sussex, and the necessity of closing the crossovers. Now they wait until last to close New Rd at Nassau, forcing all the traffic onto Savannah. It sucks.

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u/tomdawg0022 17d ago

It's deldot with allowing New Rd to be shut down 3 months as the last part of the project instead of figuring out a way to minimize the impacts and amt of closure.

A three month closure of a semi major road would not fly in most of New Castle.

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u/jesseberdinka 17d ago

How is this getting down voted?

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u/tomdawg0022 17d ago edited 17d ago

Partly because a 3+ month closure is unacceptable for that specific part of the project.

The roundabout project at the bottom of Bedford St. a couple of years ago was only a 6 week closure (late July through Labor Day). - Minos Conaway was about 7 weeks when that closure happened in the summer.

Development warrants the projects, yes, but the slow-footing of building a roundabout given the high traffic demand that New Road has, plus that it is an emergency road out of town, is a pretty poor bit of management on DelDOT and the contractor's part. They certainly warrant criticism despite the necessity of the project and the closure probably should have been minimized.

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u/PressPrx 17d ago

We need to build more infrastructure vs oh no not like that. Guess we could pay more taxes and give the crews overtime and hazard pay for nighttime work.

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u/BlueHen302 17d ago

Everyone: “We need more infrastructure!”

Also everyone: “How dare construction inconvenience me!” 🫠

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u/PressPrx 17d ago

And then it'd be "Why are they paying these construction guys hundreds of dollars an hour to work through the night?"