By Deena Winter, NebraskaWatchdog.org

Every morning, construction workers park in downtown Lincoln and begin about a half-mile trek around the edge of downtown to get to their work site: a 16,000-seat arena they’re building in a rail yard west of the historic Haymarket District.

Before entering the arena, they’re greeted with a huge sign reminding them to look both ways. That’s because in order to get to their job site, they have to cross railroad tracks. With trains. Every day, about 50 trains rumble by both sides of the construction site as Lincoln’s new arena slowly comes out of the ground.

It’s just one of many signs that this is no ordinary construction site.

Lincoln’s arena is being built from the inside out because it’s shoehorned between two active railroad lines, rattling the construction zone every time a train goes by. Fortunately for the workers, Lincoln recently created a “quiet zone” through the area so the trains don’t have to blow their horns at every crossing anymore, unless someone is in the way.

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