Road Closed

There are times I really, really, really hate Canton. It doesn't happen often, as a) I don't spend much time there, b) its a relatively nice place and c) it isn't Stoughton (ok, Stoughton isn't that bad, but you have to agree it rolls off the tongue kind of funny). Last night I was furious with Canton though, because of its sheer stupidity.
As we were driving down Washington St, Meghan and I came up to some road work that has been going on since about 1998. Most nights, I'm coming home from work, so this road work is on the other side of the street and only inconveniences me so far as to force me way to the right of the rather narrow lane, in order to avoid hitting a construction worker or police officer.
Well last night was a little different. I had to go TO work at 9:30 at night, to write a couple last minute emails. We're down the Cape for five days, and I had a final exam at Brandeis last night, so I rather hastily ran out of work. Heading to work, we ran into the construction, and a rather helpful sign:

ROAD CLOSED

Not, DETOUR, with some helpful hints as to where to go. Not that I don't know Canton that well, but I don't just travel in random 1930's neighborhoods for no reason either. So I made my first attempt to go through the neighborhood and loop back to Washington St, only to hit Washington St. right where another police officer was standing, only all to glad to tell me that I couldn't turn in the direction that I wanted to go, waving his little orange stick and telling me to turn left.
Ugh. I hate Canton. So I went back to the original road I had turned onto, traveled a good mile to a mile and a half out of my way, and then finally made it to the highway.
Is it that hard for one of the 5 police officers that manage to scam detail off of this job to maybe put up a couple detour signs? How can you just close a road? I'm pretty sure in most civilized towns, cities and nations, they give you a hint as to the best way around.


(Red is the road closure, blue is my original attempt to get around it, green is my eventual route. Its a complete coincidence that its labeled with green dots, because going all the way around because they don't know how to close a road properly isn't very "green" at all)