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Permalink Reply by Michael A on August 5, 2014 at 9:00am

welcome to the world of road construction    That work is all done by union labor, If there is a call to work and it is raining the company has to pay it workers 2 hours show up time, if they work even 5 minutes before it get rained out the workers get a 4 hour minimum. If they work 5 minutes after lunch break they get paid for an 8 hour day. A lot of construction companies will just scrap the day when the forecast calls for 100% chance of rain.

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Permalink Reply by Tricolor on August 5, 2014 at 9:14am

Someone follows those signs around Navy Pier?

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Permalink Reply by Bob Kastigar on August 5, 2014 at 2:21pm

The construction workers and very lucky to have a union to represent them, and they get them those great terms and conditions of employment by sticking together and working together as a team!  More people would be better off if they were working under those great terms. 

 

Of course, when it rains and they don't work at all they don't get paid.  At McDonalds they work indoors so then still get paid when it rains.

Michael A said:

welcome to the world of road construction    That work is all done by union labor, If there is a call to work and it is raining the company has to pay it workers 2 hours show up time, if they work even 5 minutes before it get rained out the workers get a 4 hour minimum. If they work 5 minutes after lunch break they get paid for an 8 hour day. A lot of construction companies will just scrap the day when the forecast calls for 100% chance of rain.

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Permalink Reply by JMinHP on August 6, 2014 at 3:55am

They've made the detour "shortcut" such a PITA that IMO the detour is just as fast and safer. At the start of construction, you could ride the old "normal" route, since the fencing left room at the Grand/Lake Shore on-ramp so that you could ride that sidewalk.  Now, if you don't take the detour around Lake Point Tower and try to ride the old route, the fencing blocks the sidewalk and the rider is forced to head east on Grand, cross the road in the middle, hop a curb, and ride a narrow pathway to rejoin the path.

Tricolor said:

Someone follows those signs around Navy Pier?

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Permalink Reply by skyrefuge on August 6, 2014 at 9:43am

Remember, the construction timeline for this project was planned at the start to be the world's slowest ("completed in 2018"), so there are an impossible-to-believe 3 or 4 more summers of construction remaining after this one. There has to be tons of buffer built into that timeline (the freakin' Burj Khalifa was built in the same amount of time!), so clearly no one is in a hurry to get working and "GET THIS DONE".

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Permalink Reply by Tominator on August 6, 2014 at 10:39am

That's what I've been doing. Coming back, just ride on the road, like I did before.

JM 6.5 said:

They've made the detour "shortcut" such a PITA that IMO the detour is just as fast and safer. At the start of construction, you could ride the old "normal" route, since the fencing left room at the Grand/Lake Shore on-ramp so that you could ride that sidewalk.  Now, if you don't take the detour around Lake Point Tower and try to ride the old route, the fencing blocks the sidewalk and the rider is forced to head east on Grand, cross the road in the middle, hop a curb, and ride a narrow pathway to rejoin the path.

Tricolor said:

Someone follows those signs around Navy Pier?

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