What do a nursery rhyme and road construction have in common? The “Shoofly” configuration is in place on SR 143 right now – and we wanted to learn more about where the word came from. Read about it in our latest ArizonaDOT Blog post: AheadOfTheCurve
The word on the street is the shoofly is in, at least temporarilyEvery once in a while, we come across some funny words in the engineering vernacular. Recently, the word “shoofly” caught our ears when the construction tactic was deployed on the Interstate 10 Broadway Curve Improvement Project.
What’s also known is that around the same time, railroad construction began booming in the United States. According to the Library of Congress, the number of railroad track miles tripled between 1871 and 1900, with much of that construction performed by crews of workers who entertained themselves during the long workdays by singing songs.
The term has evolved to be merged as “shoofly” and is now a commonly used term in roadway and railroad construction to describe a temporary road or track detour that allows traffic to continue flowing around a construction zone.
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