[speedgibson] Speed Gibson: Job Of the Day

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Posted by Speed Gibson:
Job Of the Day
http://speedgibson.powerblogs.com/posts/1244460583.shtml


   KSTP has a "Job of the Day" on its morning TV News. In a just world,
   there would be a new opening at the Minnesota Department of
   Transportation (MnDot) by lunch time. The job is "Construction Traffic
   Planner" - the person who puts up the signs, cones, and barrels for
   construction zones.
   Going to Grand Old Day yesterday, we got caught in a long rolling
   parking lot through the I-94 Lowry Hill tunnel. Signage was confusing
   and too late to take the downtown exit ahead of it. And at the end of
   it all, it simply detoured onto I-35W and even here, the signage was
   too late, forcing me on an exit ramp. What should have been maybe
   25-30 minutes became 75 minutes. The problem was that the detour (this
   is Sunday remember, Twins out of town) could have simply been just
   ahead the I-35W north exit, letting those going south on I-35W and
   southeast on Hiawatha to pass and not slow the rest of us down.
   But we still had a nice afternoon walking the entire length of the
   festivities, our first ever trip to Grand Old Day. Obviously, we stuck
   to the side streets going home.