You must have noticed.
Just as the other signs of spring have sprung – flowers, lawn mowers, baseball games – the orange cones also are back.
This summer is shaping up as one of the worst – but then, aren’t they all – when it comes to highway construction.
US 23 to Ann Arbor. Telegraph and Dixie, north and south of Monroe. Lewis, Sterns and Summerfield in Bedford. I-75 north of Monroe. And that doesn’t include all the smaller road construction projects in the city and county.
The Evening News has a regular feature designed to keep readers up-to-date on where the orange barrels will be located each week. It’s called Roadwatch, and it appears every Saturday in the newspaper and 24-7 on monroenews.com.
It won’t whisk the barrels away so you can drive through unimpeded. But it at least will help you plan your trip to avoid as much orange as possible.