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Reduce traffic jams <br /> Businesses and MnDOT walk a fine line When the highway is being reconstructed <br /> together, seeking to reduce traffic on the "under traffic,"MnDOT suggests drivers <br /> highway under construction so that use alternate routes. <br /> contractors can complete their work <br /> efficiently,quickly and safely, while How businesses can help reduce traffic <br /> maintaining the traffic stream so that jams <br /> customers and employees can reach the Here is a checklist of ways in which <br /> businesses as easily as possible. business can help reduce traffic jams <br /> during construction: <br /> When four lanes are reduced to two lanes,or <br /> when two lanes are narrowed to one, it u Tell your customers and employees <br /> becomes essential to reduce traffic by a about traffic restrictions. Distribute <br /> significant amount. Even when the highway brochures, flyers and paycheck stuffers. <br /> capacity has been cut in half, diverting 10- Inserts with regular customer billings <br /> 20 percent of the traffic to other routes can can be very effective. <br /> keep the traffic stream workable for both <br /> drivers and the contractor. That permits the ❑ Help your suppliers and their truck <br /> remaining 80-90 percent of the traffic to drivers identify alternate routes to your <br /> flow through the work zone at a reasonable business or industry. Do this before <br /> speed and for drivers to reach businesses, construction starts. <br /> industries, and residences along the route. <br /> ❑ Consider routes for your outgoing <br /> vehicles to avoid the work zone or <br /> schedule shipments at nonpeak times. <br /> .t.. ❑ Establish a company-sponsored carpool <br /> or vanpool program, or encourage <br /> OPEN DURING employees to use existing programs. <br /> CTION <br /> ❑ Look into starting a company shuttle to <br /> take employees to and from park-and- <br /> ride lots at locations outside the <br /> construction area. <br /> ❑ Investigate flextime or four-day work <br /> weeks that reduce employee travel <br /> Traffic is like an overflowing river: it takes during rush hours from 7 to 9 a.m. and <br /> the path of least resistance. It may follow a 3 to 6 p.m. weekdays. <br /> marked detour route. But most local traffic ❑ Consider telecornmuting or other <br /> spills onto nearby streets and roads with strategies that allow employees to work <br /> which drivers are familiar, each driver at home. <br /> finding his or her own special way to <br /> circumvent construction. <br /> 8 <br />