🚀 go-pugleaf

Its understandable (though not appreciated) why traffic gets backed up
on the interstate when say one or two of the lanes are blocked for
road repair.

What I fail to understand is why traffic going the other way also
backs up. I mean this happened the other day, three days in a row. The
lanes that were backed up were going the other way and there was no
construction in them and indeed the middle strip was at least 50 feet
across and the construction on the other side. So why the backup?

Well it seems that at the sight of construction, a number of driver
may want to:

 - play construction supervisor from their car and need to slow to
   bark out some orders from their vehicle as they drive by

 - hope to see a blood-and-guts construction accident, so they can
   rubber-neck the way they do at an ordinary accident

 - are dazzled by a few blinking yellow lights

 - the steam rising from the freshly laid asphalt reminds them of the
   Smokey Mountains and so they slow to enjoy the scenery

 - the male drivers are rubbernecking, looking for a sexy female
   construction worker

 - the female drivers are rubbernecking, looking for a topless male
   construction worker

 - construction work reminds them of the chores they have to do after
   they go home from work and so they slow so they can delay that

 - they are just stupid and think its an accident, not construction.