Anybody who lives around here and has had to get anywhere at anytime on any road was probably not surprised by this statement from a road construction spokesman yesterday. His remarks came after construction workers put up barricades on northbound I-275 around the Armenia\Howard entrance ramps, creating massive backups.
John McShaffrey, a spokesman for the Department of Transportation, said “Sometimes you do things in the planning room and get in the real world and have it not work out. If we’d known, we wouldn’t have designed it that way.’’
I’d say that’s a big maybe.