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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I live on a dead end street with about 20 houses and they just repaved the road. It took about 6 weeks total with 3 separate ‘working sessions’ of about 2-3 days each to get it done. Based on what they told us in the neighborhood this is how it worked. First, the main reason they couldn’t just get it done all at one time was because after the first session where they ripped up all the old asphalt and put down the first layer of new asphalt, they said they had to wait a couple of weeks to let cars drive on it to see if there were any soft spots in the road. I will also mention there were a number of different paving jobs all over our general area at the same time so timing and coordination played a part in moving equipment and people around. When they came back the second time someone marked the places in the street that needed to be ripped up again and redone, based on how the road responded to cars driving over it, and then they laid down new asphalt in those places. They let this sit for about 2 weeks and then they just put down the final layer last week. So the reason it took as long as it did was because they had to do it in stages plus they had to coordinate resources between a dozen other jobs that were happening at the same time.
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