If you've been driving in certain areas of Southfield these past few weeks, chances are you've been late to work or appointments.
Construction on 10 Mile Road and Evergreen over M-10 is causing headaches. Drivers are calling it a necessary nightmare.
They say they know the roads in this area were in need of fixing, but on the other hand the traffic caused by the construction is frustrating.
For many drivers it could take up to 30 minutes to get through this area during rush hour.
"Oh, it's terrible it's just a nightmare," said Ary Schottenstein. He drives around there and explained, "It's sometimes easier to go 5 to 7 miles out of my way, I've timed it, to do different circuitous just to get where you need to go because if you go the regular pattern, it's just not going to happen."
The traffic gets backed up regularly, but in rush hour it could slow you down an extra 30 minutes.
"Our daytime population in a Southfield is up about a 100,000 people more than it is with our normal population, so we get a lot of traffic," said City engineer Leigh Schultz.
And if it felt worse this morning during rush hour, there's a good reason. A traffic shift on Evergreen caused even more backs up.
Schultz explained, "So instead of that one lane that was open southbound when the project started, we just switched that to one lane northbound. That always creates a little bit of confusion for the drivers to get used to it."
Parts of the Service Drive and other roads near the area may also lane closures, even if there isn't any construction going on there.
"We are not doing work on the service drive but because there are turn restrictions when you get to Evergreen, those lanes that would be a turn lane, they close those ahead of that intersection," Schultz explained.
The construction will continue until at least mid November.
Schultz said the city will be working with the county to see if the traffic lights need to be adjusted to help with the flow.
There are construction plans for the Service Drive starting early spring.
