Facing a Road Construction Project? Help Local Business Owners Survive Orange barrels mark a construction project. Extensive road construction can disrupt traffic, hinder parking, and cripple local shopkeepers. Transportation projects often disrupt a busy main street in a business district. The economic impact can be devastating! In Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, business owners were informed their sales could drop between 33-70 percent during the State Street Streetscape project that began last spring in 2016. And guess what? There are still major traffic and parking disruptions …