Bob: Thanks for the contribution!
p911dad: I don't see an issue with adding in some sharper aggregate to the mix.
redbeard: They don't seem to be doing anything with the road bed. They are grinding it down a few inches and repaving, just taking a really long time to do it.
Mike: It's been this way my whole 28 years in Illinois. I love it when they put down the cones 2 weeks - 1 month before any work starts, at a minimum of 2 miles before the work zone. In Georgia, they seemed to figure out how to put out cones the day work start and pick them up the day it ends.