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It was weird today. Even though Robert Street Bridge is the detour for both Wabasha St. and Hwy 52, and even though it was the middle of rush hour (5:15pm), there was a crew closing a lane of southbound Robert Street for approx half a block on the south end of the bridge. The resulting merge chaos resulted in traffic backed up all the way through downtown, past the i94 overpass and up the hill towards the Capitol. It took 35 minutes to get from Univ Ave to the West Side. Even weirder was that there were no traffic control officers stations anywhere along this chaos. And weirder than that was that no roadwork was actually being done in that half block of lane closure. Something this poorly executed couldn't have happened on purpose, so I want you to know about it in case it's worth looking into.