Sounds like you’re the man!It's for sure a thankless job.
I did the horizontal and vertical design of Wildhorse mountain (us 59, south of salisaw), at the request of Director Ridley. Saved the tax payers $44 million over a consultant design. And sequenced it all under traffic with rock blasting and all. Road was only closed for 20 min. At a time for a blast and cleanup
No one thanked me.
That was my biggest claim to fame with ODOT.