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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It’s either scheduling conflicts/planning, or other work needing to be done.
Like i’ve had my nearby road worked on several times because of other infrastructure projects, and they put down fresh pavement and a week later start cutting into it again to reach under-road pipes and other key things. So they did a great job on the road… and fucked it immediately. Really short sighted nonsense.
So to avoid that, they may rip up an old road but leave it like that for a few weeks and what you don’t notice is the small crews coming at night to dig down to a pipe or route a cable or whatever. They do all that bullshit and finish up as much as possible before they commit to finishing the road.
Where I live we get winters so roads dont last long and we redo them all the time… if you live in an area without harsh winters, they really just want to do the road right and complete it once and then it’s good for many years with just slight patching over time.
The other problem is scheduling like i said at first. Your town has let’s say 5 crews, but you have to redo 80 roads. So it’s hot potato of shifting crews around constantly. So they might dig a road up, but then be assigned to another road that had complications or just takes priority, and then they return to the first road a few weeks later.
It’s not just the crews, but also the equipment. They dont have 50 crews, and they don’t have 50 full sets of heavy equipment.
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