I was told once it’s because cities project the job to take say 5 weeks, so they rip it up the first week, leave it for 3 weeks, then repave the last week. And they do this so everyone gets a paycheck for the full 5 weeks. Surely there has to be a different reason?
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Those people are not city employees, they are employees of whichever company the city contracted. Put yourself in the shoes of the owner of that company. You can either hire some people to work full time or twice as many people to work every other week. They need to pace their work out so that they can maintain a constant level of employment and income.
It’s not necessarily about working slowly, but taking on the right number is jobs and having the right number of employees. Then they can provide the lowest bid and win the contract.
Grady over at Practical Engineering YouTube channel discusses it occasionally. We could do things much faster is we wanted, it’s not hard, but it is MUCH more expensive.
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