Ever since Hurricane Ian the lights have never been right, it's like the only smart guy in the room retired a decade ago in that department.
back in the sixties the highway department completed I35 in Oklahoma. Prior to this completion, there was a ~45 mile gap with a two lane highway spanning the gap. There were three/four small towns, pop. 3000 spaced along the gap. When the plans for the Interstate were published, the mayors of those small towns protested. No longer would the traffic be routed down the mainstreets of these small towns because the interstate went around the towns.
The mayors petitioned the state to stop the interstate at their city limits with the traffic continuing through town on the mainstreets and then pick up the interstate outside their towns. One of the mayors was quoted as saying they were sure the people on the interstate would miss the opportunity to see their towns.