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Closure of 696 Delayed!!!
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Closure of 696 Delayed!!!

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February 28, 2025 | 00:06:31 | Leisure

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offer void in new york and july 19th terms at dkng.co audio oh hey welcome to the weekend everybody i was very uh pleasantly surprised but also now thinking this is going to actually turn into even a bigger mess i got the breaking news yesterday that one of the biggest construction projects that were going to mess all of us up was going to be delayed they were supposed to do the restore the reuther for anybody that's living in detroit you know about this anybody in grand rapids or toledo just imagine the biggest highway in your city just gets shut down they just shut down you know how they're directionally doing it so they can actually do construction for like 8,000 years, but they decided to put it off, and I want to know the full details, and man, this is like a blast from the past right now, one of our very good friends, we all remember her if you're a big fan of this radio show, remember Diane Cross, the traffic boss, oh I do, I loved her, great name, Diane was the queen of traffic at one point of her iHeart media and then she went on to do it she literally went on to be crowned the queen at mdot what's

00:03:23 - 00:03:29 | Speaker 2:

going on diane how are you oh she's good morning it is a flash from the past isn't it i hope you're

00:03:29 - 00:03:51 | Speaker 4:

all well we're great diane diane now you're working for the the people that do all the that make all the traffic i would have thought this would have been a traffic boss now this would have been a conspiracy if you worked for them at the same time i would have thought you would have been the one making all the traffic every day to report it's funny it's they're very similar

00:03:51 - 00:03:59 | Speaker 2:

they have a lot of similar things knowing the roads all of that has been very very helpful on this job especially when i have to give people detours at least i know the roads i'm talking

00:03:59 - 00:04:17 | Speaker 4:

about diane um first and foremost it's great to talk to you i love this lady so much she's seriously one of the the nicest people i've ever worked with in broadcasting but uh what what's the latest on this thing so why 696 was supposed to be closed down starting this weekend but now

00:04:17 - 00:05:29 | Speaker 2:

you guys are delaying it yes it was eastbound and we're only talking about a closure of eastbound that's the only side that's going to close for two years even though we're rebuilding both eastbound and westbound we're always going to let westbound traffic go through we're always going to detour eastbound so eastbound 696 was supposed to close saturday morning anywhere from 7 a.m to roughly noon before the whole thing would be closed but the temperatures are going to be hovering near freezing too much and some of the paint equipment that we use to put lane markings on the road it can't work below freezing and so we don't feel that we're going to be able to get that done i know it seems like such a minor thing but you don't even realize how much you use lane markings to know where on the road Thank you.

00:05:00 - 00:05:15 | Speaker 1:

You're supposed to be where your lane is. Or the guy who can't stay in his lane, you see where the markings are. So we have to have that. And we're not going to have warm enough weather until Monday. It's supposed to be near 40. So after 9 a.m. Monday, we're going to shut down that eastbound side.

00:05:15 - 00:05:19 | Speaker 5:

So, well, first off, why does it have to be a guy that's not in his lane? You feel me?

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I know. Come on.

00:05:21 - 00:05:28 | Speaker 5:

The truth hurts. Take your shots in the morning. Every time I get rolled off the road, I look over, and it's hair flowing in the wind.

00:05:30 - 00:05:34 | Speaker 1:

so yeah but that oh well it doesn't mean it's not a him but that's another story

00:05:34 - 00:05:51 | Speaker 5:

yeah can can i ask you this uh when you guys do this why don't you do it in the summertime then if the if there's the word about the freezing because isn't it always freezing at this time of the year when you you're going to do any kind of road construction well usually we don't normally

00:05:51 - 00:06:26 | Speaker 1:

start this early but this project is going to probably take close to nine to ten months to totally tear out four, sometimes five, six lanes of 696, take it totally down to the ground, work with all the drainage, rebuild all of it. And we just need that many months. And the idea, we know for sure it's cold in December, but, you know, sometimes late February, early March, we start to get some pretty warm temperatures, as we all know, in pothole season. We can have warmer daytime temps. And so, unfortunately, it was a gamble, and it is going to delay us a couple days because we need that warmer temperature.

00:06:27 - 00:06:43 | Speaker 5:

The amazing thing is now they're not going to start it until Monday at 9 a.m., which means that commute on Monday is going to be an interesting one. You're going to have to make sure if you're going to be driving eastbound, you've got to go to work a little early. So make sure that you're up early with us. Diane, it was great having you on. I appreciate it.

00:06:45 - 00:06:46 | Speaker 1:

Thanks for helping get the word out. Be safe.

00:06:47 - 00:07:01 | Speaker 5:

We'll talk to you soon. We'll hopefully see each other soon face-to-face. I don't think that we necessarily do the greatest thing in this state when we close just the entire road down. But they say that it makes for safe people working the road construction.

00:07:02 - 00:07:05 | Speaker 2:

Yeah. What a headache it's going to be, though.

00:07:05 - 00:07:12 | Speaker 5:

In Ohio, Megan, do they do complete closures where they'll just close the entire freeway like we do in Michigan?

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Yes. No?

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Are you recognized?

00:07:16 - 00:07:42 | Speaker 4:

I don't know. I don't pay attention. I try. You could ask me. This is a true story. So when I first started working for I heart, I was in the traffic department as well. And I was also calling my dad going, I got on at Central Avenue and I'm heading towards Perrysburg. What expressway am I on? Like I had no business being hired as a traffic reporter. I have no idea why they allowed me to do that.

00:07:42 - 00:07:49 | Speaker 5:

The funny thing is that you don't know that, but you know the most inane details about Ohio of any person I've ever known.

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That is correct.

00:07:50 - 00:07:51 | Speaker 5:

What's up, Jay?

00:07:51 - 00:07:53 | Speaker 4:

I have a Jeopardy brain. You know what I mean?

00:07:53 - 00:07:58 | Speaker 5:

That is true. You do. You would be, by the way, you'd be my phone a friend if we were ever going to do a contest. What's up, Jay?

00:07:59 - 00:08:11 | Speaker 2:

I'm listening to this, and all I'm hearing is painting lines for two years. I'm getting stressed out because, you know, we only ever see, like, one or two people out there working. It's true.

00:08:12 - 00:08:18 | Speaker 5:

They say they work in the middle of the night. I go to work in the middle of the night. I don't see anybody out there in the middle of the night. It is crazy.

00:08:18 - 00:08:22 | Speaker 2:

I travel to the schools. I don't see anybody working either in the early morning.

00:08:22 - 00:08:28 | Speaker 5:

Yeah. Well, Jay, it's going to be a fun party. Two years of doing lines. Let's have some fun.

00:08:29 - 00:08:34 | Speaker 2:

I'm stressed already. I'm stressed. Have a great weekend. You too.

00:08:34 - 00:08:35 | Speaker 5:

Take care, buddy.

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