When cities repave roads, why do they leave the street ripped up for a couple weeks before repaving?

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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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In New Orleans, sometimes it’s because we were given federal funding to make infrastructure improvements, but it had to be used within a certain timeframe. Our terrible mayor didn’t use it up until the time frame was almost over so in order to still get the money, they started a million road improvement projects around town and dug stuff up to get in under the deadline. And now some of this projects will sit torn up and partially completed for years lol

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