There was a recent "car into wet concrete" situation during the recent work on Front Street East. The road crew were so convulsed with laughter they could not help the driver to get out for a few minutes - the car was up to the middle of its radiator. (And yes, there were clear signs and men working very nearby.)
The recent Front Street East rebuild? If there were clear signs and workers directing traffic, that would have been a first. I work close to that work, and the complete lack of appropriate health and safety and traffic control on that project was beyond a joke. They significantly took advantage of the new requirement of the contractor not having police on paid duty, and did not have their own staff directing pedestrians and traffic, except on the rare occasion. I spoke to the supervisor for Il Duca Construction on one occasion (when I realised I'd inadvertently walked into the middle of a very busy construction zone in the dark, simply by walking down an unsigned and open sidewalk ... and it was quite clear from a brief discussion that he was a liar and had no interest in following standard traffic control rules.
Looks pretty clear to me. The street is down to two lanes. There is equipment a few hundred feet down the street, and signage right where they turned.
Looking at the picture, the lack of signage, pylons, and tape is atrocious. In that entire shot, there is a single pylon and no tape. This was pretty consistent with the gross incompetence I observed from the contractor.
I watched one day just after 4:30 pm after the city inspector had left for the day, and without warning, they suddenly started excavating the road in the middle of the interestion in the background of that shot. Okay fine ... but they did it without any pylons, flagging, people directing traffic, or trying to close either Front or Princess to pedestrians or cars. I'm amazed that they didn't back over a pedestrian crossing the interesection. It was truly bizarre ... clearly they had an unexpected truck to fill, so they decided to do something planned for the next day, in a rush, without appropriate precautions, when they knew the city inspector had gone home for the day.