I was a highway engineer for 32 years. It is absolutely against safety protocol to work in a lift over live traffic. It's unsafe for the workers and for the vehicles. Easily avoided stupidity.“Probably wasn’t on his bucket list” is such an out of pocket statement.Now I see why whole roads are blocked off for the most “minimal” jobs.First off. The bucket truck operator was in the wrong. He never should have been over moving traffic like that without cones blocking that lane.