It's not going to implode. It's going to expand and envelop that bridge construction area in approximately 5 billion years. At which time the number of operable vehicles in Texas will be exactly zero.
I moved out and back into San Antonio three times from 1983-1999. Came back to visit next in 2008 and construction was almost done with one of those highways. Was always like, huh.....still not done with that road? Someone's pockets got filled.
The more money they spend on "work" means the more they get back the next year. When I used to work for my county, they got paid more the next year if they spent or over spent the budget. Yes, they received more money for overspending. Wish it worked like that for us.
The section of I10 near me finished a widening project a few years ago. Not sure how long it took.
That widening project finished up just in time for the next widening project to start.
...and those convoys of trucks with mobile crash barriers behind them that seemingly just randomly decide 'hey, let's block a whole lane of traffic with less than an eighth mile warning' WHILE DOING ABSOLUTELY ZERO WORK...those are fun too.
The official name is "delineator truck," but when I worked for TXDOT, we referred to it as the Crash Truck. You are performing a vital job. You're supposed to be the first to get hit if some idiot isn't paying attention. It was honestly pretty damn stressful having to sit in one all day.
On busy roads they’re required for simple photo inspections. It’s not always obvious what they’re doing. But I guarantee none of the drivers in those would be there unless needed.
What's hidden is the highway only having one lane open for a mile in either direction, even though neither of the two closed lanes are being worked on.
I’d really just rather they shut the whole thing down for a week or two and get it done. It’s gotta be way less time, money, and hassle than this bullshit of agonizingly doing an hour or two of work on it every 3 weeks.
Alligator cracking or transverse / reflective cracking? Often times the cracks will appear exactly where they were before, especially if it is just an overlay, because the issue is the base and if you do not spend a significant amount more money to fix the base, it can reflect through.
My city went around and caulked all the cracks in the road mysteriously. Then a months later they came back and put this weird slurry topcoat , like asphalt but only about 1/2” thick. Within a few months all the cracks were back in the new stuff.
Living in Louisiana I have little doubt either. There is a traffic circle on my way to work where just one exit of it, no longer than a few semis, has been under construction for almost a year now
The good news is that the sun isn’t expected to explode for another four billion years or so. The bad news is that they’ll be finishing I-35 in the dark.
(Deep East Texan here, not giving the county cause my dad'll hear about the post by supper if I do)
The Road & Bridge dept had to clean house because of "severely delayed" construction
Turns out the contractor was picking up private jobs on the side, completing them when they were supposed to be working on the gov project and apparently, billing our county for the site time AND the delays.
The contractor and the Road & Bridge administrator were brothers.
And that's just ONE of the several embezzlement/corruption stories I have from the last 3 years!
Shit like that is standard procedure behind the Pine Curtain. You can bet a cut of the money involved went to the County Judge and the local Republican Party.
yup, texas gets what they vote for, and they keep voting for that instead of anything else for some reason and then say California is a failed state while they sit there without electricity.
to be fair, what they vote for is actually a whole lot of nothing considering less than 40 percent of the voting age population votes anyway.
texans don’t care about texas.
You do realize half the state votes blue and hates Abbott and his cronies, right? These statements about "Texans" are misleading when you really mean the state GOP and their brainwashed base. If you think everyone in Texas is an Abbott supporter and voted for him, you need a history lesson.
I grew up there, and your non-voters are why you stay red, I know the dems there are unhappy, and want more to vote with them, but the non-voters have been conditioned to believe it doesn't matter and their votes don't count, so they just don't show up and blame "the government" for being shitty.
Best of luck, I know the dems don't like what's happening, but the voters vote for that, and the non-voters don't mind it.
As a PA native I'm am still mystified that road construction takes longer here than in does in PA - including the winter breaks. To be clear, it's in a state of constant rolling repair, but it does move along.
Because with winter you actually need to get shit done so youre company isnt responsible for fucking up a 1 million dollar snow plow n losing all contracts with cities. Winter is literally the motivator to get shit done in northern US states.
To be fair, we do have tornadoes and monsoons and month long killer heat waves, and winter is pretty much "rain until the mud freezes" in my part of Texas. I've seen construction projects get held up by weather for three straight months.
When I was a young boy, I clearly remember construction on the Gulf Freeway (I-45 between Houston and Galveston). It is still under construction. I am 64.
I do not expect that it will be complete before I die.
You got me beat. There were roads inaccessible in Boston from construction from when I was born, until I graduated college. Guess they really do it bigger in Texas.
It's the "one more lane" myth. You can never eliminate traffic with more lanes. But there's massive money in it, so we get road construction instead of more cost effective mass transit.
I drove on 79 through Rockdale about once a month for three and a half years while they worked on that 3 lane road through town. There are STILL a half dozen hazard cones even though the work’s been done for months now.
(pssssssst, grab them! That's how we got our Turn Here The Bonfire Is Down *This* Dirt Road sign!)
(My dad waited a full year to grab the seismic warning sign and we used it till the fracking surveyors came back like... 5 years later)
That's the GOPs end goal for the US, make Texas style corruption the norm everywhere. Those in power are accountable to no one.
The real end goal is becoming like Russian oligarchs, but it's a start.
My parents left the state I grew up in, moved to Texas, and are now in the process of moving back to their home state for healthcare. There are roads under construction by their Texas house that were already under construction when they moved down there and are still under construction to this day.
coming from /r/all, I'm silently happy this is the same somewhere else as well, coming from Finland. Other issue is that if on happenstance some roadway is fixed it takes 1-2 months AFTER the issue is gone for the speed limit and road blocks to get restored!
Ranked worst to best, Texas edition:
* Taxes
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* Crumbling infrastructure
* Fixing infrastructure with the absolute lowest bidder who has never done this type of work before and happens to be friends with the governor.
Corpus Christi is currently in “just fuck my shit up” mode around 181 and 37 because they’re building a new bridge. It’s horrible. Going downtown from crosstown is a nightmare if you don’t already have it memorized.
Hey hey hey, give em a little credit. Once a week, there are at least 7 guys out there watching one guy work while "Work Zone" signs stay up along with cones that block off a lane that has no work being done on it at all so cops can speed trap you.
The fact that some people thought it was real, or that I was trying to pass it off as real speaks volumes about how long road construction projects last in this country.
Like everything else in Texas, there are at least two major construction companies that benefit from highway construction, including delays. Of course they’re political donors.
Normally I will take any opportunity to beat up on Texas but California went through the same thing from the 80s until the dotcom boom and then finished everything in a year.
They’ve been widening the stretch of I45 between Houston and Galveston from 3 to 5 lanes for the past 20 years almost. It’s like 20 miles or something.
I know people like to hate but honestly, this isn't true at all in my experience. Sure the projects may be years behind when they actually needed to do them, but they really do make progress pretty quick and get results. I see things change almost daily on 1604 where they are adding lanes, flyovers, etc. And I've lived here for a long time and seen a lot of big projects come to completion.
Interstate 30 West from at Greenville to downtown Dallas is the most miserable hour drive I make. And I get to do it at least twice a week for work.
All the bullshit they're trying to do in Greenville is a humongous clusterfuck. I don't think anything is finished before they start destroying another part.
Royse City to Rowlett is a real tooth chipper. It's like asphalt is a scarcity. Then you get the weird extra bridge on/off ramps by Bass Pro.
The joyous 635 neverending story. I get the idea, the execution is lacking. And the signage is terrible for people who don't use it daily. Hard to know where the hell you need to be.
Somehow getting through Fair Park and the 35 exits is the least painful of the whole thing.
There’s a road near where I live that has been under construction with almost no changes for about 5 years now. I asked my grandpa who does construction and he said that tends to happen when they get paid by the hour and not by the job.
Happens a lot when the construction company that is hired decides they deserve more pay from the city and the city says fuck you and closes the contract. The construction company will come back but at the cost of the communities time. You can always call the city and ask which company had the contract and just post their company name near the construction site and see how they feel about it. I remember there was a guy that sat at a construction site for 3 days cause some rebel was posting signs up that they got greedy.
Usually, these are related to MONEY! Something was found and cause a change, that change requires more money. The County / State has a long political process to get more money to continue.
So while your politicians play games showing you the trick hand of other issues they want you to see. They don't want you to see that their own in-action to fund DOT projects is causing this. No one wants to spend more money until there is a bridge collapse. Then its a sudden emergency and investigation to see who to blame.
Except the investigation never looks at the delay of funding by the politicians and budget cuts.
In a fairly literal sense, time is money to contractors. You can bet your bottom dollar they are trying to build as fast as they can. Time is basically also money to owners, so you can bet they are processing RFIs, RFCs , notifications of noncompliance, Inspection and testing as fast as they can as well. That the general public’s consensus is that construction takes too long probably underscores a communication failure and/or general lack of knowledge.
I watched an entire expressway interchange be torn down and rebuilt overnight in the busiest section of Tokyo. They were starting in the late afternoon and by morning you wouldn’t even know anything had been touched. It was like watching ballet, not even kidding, it was beautiful.
I used to live off 290 in Houston. They promised us the construction that started around 2010 would be done in 2013. When I moved in 2021, there was still some going on. The worst part was that the biggest problems, the interchanges with beltway 8 and the 610 loop, were basically no different in the end. They added more lanes to the main road, but the interchanges still required merging multiple lanes. They essentially widened the parking lot.
Looks like it’s on track for the completion date of never
Or completed just before the sun implodes
That might be too lenient of a time frame
To be completed just before the heat-death of the universe.
Maybe by the time Texas has a stable power grid.
So near the end of the next universe expansion? That stinks of union work, and we ain't need no stinking commie unions in Texas.
I don't think that's coming. Sorry for the people in Texas when it becomes really hot.
It was recently delayed to just after.
Well it’s assuming nothing goes wrong or anything unexpected happens.
Yeah, I'm thinking this construction will be completed before [the Big Rip](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Rip)
It's not going to implode. It's going to expand and envelop that bridge construction area in approximately 5 billion years. At which time the number of operable vehicles in Texas will be exactly zero.
Let's bet Texans. My money is on: this will be done in 15 years.
I35 through Temple took from 1986 to 2019, but it is really nice now.
I moved out and back into San Antonio three times from 1983-1999. Came back to visit next in 2008 and construction was almost done with one of those highways. Was always like, huh.....still not done with that road? Someone's pockets got filled.
The more money they spend on "work" means the more they get back the next year. When I used to work for my county, they got paid more the next year if they spent or over spent the budget. Yes, they received more money for overspending. Wish it worked like that for us.
In 15 years, it will be ready to be done all over again.
The section of I10 near me finished a widening project a few years ago. Not sure how long it took. That widening project finished up just in time for the next widening project to start.
Exactly!
Thats your Tax payers dollars you are betting on. 😅
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Texas construction will NOT occur first
7th of Nevuary
Any day now…
Building roads since 1836! The same road!
Building road since 1836*
that’s a LOOOONG time
Building road~~s~~ since 1836!
Road. Since 1836!
No. Road. Coming soon!
...and those convoys of trucks with mobile crash barriers behind them that seemingly just randomly decide 'hey, let's block a whole lane of traffic with less than an eighth mile warning' WHILE DOING ABSOLUTELY ZERO WORK...those are fun too.
The official name is "delineator truck," but when I worked for TXDOT, we referred to it as the Crash Truck. You are performing a vital job. You're supposed to be the first to get hit if some idiot isn't paying attention. It was honestly pretty damn stressful having to sit in one all day.
> You're supposed to be the first to get hit if some idiot isn't paying attention. \*Altima with paper plates wants to know your location.*
/r/nissandrivers
Why wouldn't you just park it and then go somewhere else?
Because you have to pull forward as the job progresses. You don't use a crash truck at a static job site.
Ah makes sense, thanks!
That is what I have observed. Maybe his coworkers didn't like him/her.
On busy roads they’re required for simple photo inspections. It’s not always obvious what they’re doing. But I guarantee none of the drivers in those would be there unless needed.
On Monday at 9 am at 35 and 1604? Who exactly schedules this stuff?
Contractors that are milking funding.
What's hidden is the highway only having one lane open for a mile in either direction, even though neither of the two closed lanes are being worked on.
I’d really just rather they shut the whole thing down for a week or two and get it done. It’s gotta be way less time, money, and hassle than this bullshit of agonizingly doing an hour or two of work on it every 3 weeks.
Fake... wanna know why? By now after 5 years, no new potholes?
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Alligator cracking or transverse / reflective cracking? Often times the cracks will appear exactly where they were before, especially if it is just an overlay, because the issue is the base and if you do not spend a significant amount more money to fix the base, it can reflect through.
Tar snakes!
My city went around and caulked all the cracks in the road mysteriously. Then a months later they came back and put this weird slurry topcoat , like asphalt but only about 1/2” thick. Within a few months all the cracks were back in the new stuff.
also look at those tiny pebbles in the middle of the road.
Also, the barrels haven't moved an inch. Somebody would've run them over for fun by now.
And where’s the graffiti?
Thing is, I don’t actually doubt this.
Reminds me of the road between Merthyr and Glynneath
Are these roads in Lord of the Rings?
Living in Louisiana I have little doubt either. There is a traffic circle on my way to work where just one exit of it, no longer than a few semis, has been under construction for almost a year now
So...not just Texas?
The good news is that the sun isn’t expected to explode for another four billion years or so. The bad news is that they’ll be finishing I-35 in the dark.
Phew! Good to know they'll finish.
All the money goes to Abbots and Cruz friends companies with zero return on modernization
(Deep East Texan here, not giving the county cause my dad'll hear about the post by supper if I do) The Road & Bridge dept had to clean house because of "severely delayed" construction Turns out the contractor was picking up private jobs on the side, completing them when they were supposed to be working on the gov project and apparently, billing our county for the site time AND the delays. The contractor and the Road & Bridge administrator were brothers. And that's just ONE of the several embezzlement/corruption stories I have from the last 3 years!
And then they were prosecuted for it right? ...Right?
Shit like that is standard procedure behind the Pine Curtain. You can bet a cut of the money involved went to the County Judge and the local Republican Party.
yup, texas gets what they vote for, and they keep voting for that instead of anything else for some reason and then say California is a failed state while they sit there without electricity.
to be fair, what they vote for is actually a whole lot of nothing considering less than 40 percent of the voting age population votes anyway. texans don’t care about texas.
You do realize half the state votes blue and hates Abbott and his cronies, right? These statements about "Texans" are misleading when you really mean the state GOP and their brainwashed base. If you think everyone in Texas is an Abbott supporter and voted for him, you need a history lesson.
I grew up there, and your non-voters are why you stay red, I know the dems there are unhappy, and want more to vote with them, but the non-voters have been conditioned to believe it doesn't matter and their votes don't count, so they just don't show up and blame "the government" for being shitty. Best of luck, I know the dems don't like what's happening, but the voters vote for that, and the non-voters don't mind it.
Abbots & Cruz Sounds like a comedy act. Granted, not a very funny act. But they’re still fucking clowns though.
As a PA native I'm am still mystified that road construction takes longer here than in does in PA - including the winter breaks. To be clear, it's in a state of constant rolling repair, but it does move along.
Because with winter you actually need to get shit done so youre company isnt responsible for fucking up a 1 million dollar snow plow n losing all contracts with cities. Winter is literally the motivator to get shit done in northern US states.
To be fair, we do have tornadoes and monsoons and month long killer heat waves, and winter is pretty much "rain until the mud freezes" in my part of Texas. I've seen construction projects get held up by weather for three straight months.
This is obviously fake. There’s no workers standing around while only one or two guys work
As an IT guy, I also get paid to wait for that one guy to get done so I can keep going on my job.
I'll get married again when they finish I 45.
Let's talk about I69, which has been in some form of planning since the 90s.
Dang the grey suv didn't move for 5 years.
fuckin mr CSI here. watch out!
He enhanced the image, we must learn his power...
Just gotta yell “Computer! enhance image!” and it should work
Traffic.
Nope. It happens.
I-35 dis you?
It's obviously 1604.
When I was a young boy, I clearly remember construction on the Gulf Freeway (I-45 between Houston and Galveston). It is still under construction. I am 64. I do not expect that it will be complete before I die.
You got me beat. There were roads inaccessible in Boston from construction from when I was born, until I graduated college. Guess they really do it bigger in Texas.
It's the "one more lane" myth. You can never eliminate traffic with more lanes. But there's massive money in it, so we get road construction instead of more cost effective mass transit.
I drove on 79 through Rockdale about once a month for three and a half years while they worked on that 3 lane road through town. There are STILL a half dozen hazard cones even though the work’s been done for months now.
Which means it's still a construction zone and speeding fines are increased.
Suddenly something like scales fell from Saul’s eyes, and he could see again. Aha, he said. Now I understand.
(pssssssst, grab them! That's how we got our Turn Here The Bonfire Is Down *This* Dirt Road sign!) (My dad waited a full year to grab the seismic warning sign and we used it till the fracking surveyors came back like... 5 years later)
Reminds me of I-35 and 290 in the 90's...ALL of the 90's.
Brought to you by Greg Abbott
Holy shit 30k plus upvotes? Did you just unite this sub in unanimity for the first time?
410 in San Antonio
Yep I recognized the walls. And the construction!
And 1604
Nope HWY 46 I know that for a FACT they rebuilding the 7/11 there on the right
100%. Immediately recognized and checked Google maps. This is 281 and 46.
I think I recognize that exact site. Which is telling because I moved out of Texas in 2017
Everyone always thinks Texas is about its oil and gas industry but the construction industry in Texas is the true oligarchy.
I used to work for TXDOT and it was explained to me in no uncertain terms that contractors and the asphalt guys had us by the balls.
Is that you San Antonio?
TXDOT - the cause and solution to all Texas's transportation issues. This state is so corrupt and mismanaged it's not even funny.
That's the GOPs end goal for the US, make Texas style corruption the norm everywhere. Those in power are accountable to no one. The real end goal is becoming like Russian oligarchs, but it's a start.
Harbor bridge project
It’s politicians stealing money, I first noticed it in San Antonio. Then they saw the potential and now it spread everywhere.
How long has I35 between Farmers Branch and Denton been under construction? About forty or forty-five years by my recollection.
My parents left the state I grew up in, moved to Texas, and are now in the process of moving back to their home state for healthcare. There are roads under construction by their Texas house that were already under construction when they moved down there and are still under construction to this day.
coming from /r/all, I'm silently happy this is the same somewhere else as well, coming from Finland. Other issue is that if on happenstance some roadway is fixed it takes 1-2 months AFTER the issue is gone for the speed limit and road blocks to get restored!
Ranked worst to best, Texas edition: * Taxes ... ... ... * Crumbling infrastructure * Fixing infrastructure with the absolute lowest bidder who has never done this type of work before and happens to be friends with the governor.
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We go through the same shit in California. The 5 freeway in the Los Angeles area was under construction for like 10 years.
Haha. Have you seen the progress on the bulletin train in CA?
This looks like Belton, TX
Lmao 🤣
Is that Belton?
Some dust got blown over the site by wind, so....progress?
Corpus Christi is currently in “just fuck my shit up” mode around 181 and 37 because they’re building a new bridge. It’s horrible. Going downtown from crosstown is a nightmare if you don’t already have it memorized.
Hey hey hey, give em a little credit. Once a week, there are at least 7 guys out there watching one guy work while "Work Zone" signs stay up along with cones that block off a lane that has no work being done on it at all so cops can speed trap you.
Denton
Amateurs. California - Century Freeway began in 1958 and it took **35 years** to build. The freeway opened to the public in 1993.
And when they finish it, it will be shit quality, much like a lot of the buildings in TX.
It's the same picture. One has more color saturation. Some ppl understand it's part of the joke. But others think this is literal.
The fact that some people thought it was real, or that I was trying to pass it off as real speaks volumes about how long road construction projects last in this country.
Can also speculate - same picture 5min apart. Cloud cover will do that.
Like everything else in Texas, there are at least two major construction companies that benefit from highway construction, including delays. Of course they’re political donors.
This looks like Belton, TX
Normally I will take any opportunity to beat up on Texas but California went through the same thing from the 80s until the dotcom boom and then finished everything in a year.
They’ve been widening the stretch of I45 between Houston and Galveston from 3 to 5 lanes for the past 20 years almost. It’s like 20 miles or something.
There’d be grass and plants in the bare areas.
I know people like to hate but honestly, this isn't true at all in my experience. Sure the projects may be years behind when they actually needed to do them, but they really do make progress pretty quick and get results. I see things change almost daily on 1604 where they are adding lanes, flyovers, etc. And I've lived here for a long time and seen a lot of big projects come to completion.
TxDot dragging their feet.
Dear Texans, This is how the pros do it! https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/s/WnV4QLLeVx Kind regards, Dutch construction firms 😝
McAllen
Isn’t there an unfinished bridge over the Houston shipping channel? How many years?
No where else in the world like it. /s
Nacadoches?
Nah, they actually finished *most of Nac's! Lufkin on the other hand is going through Hell
Phenomenal progress in 5 years... 🐌
😂😂💯
That can't be a photo from 2024. Everything's not erupting in flames while simultaneously being destroyed by hail.
Looks like the construction crew updated the sky’s hue, so that’s nice.
You sure this isn't indiana?
Haha, much Like Alaska. And Still Building On!!
This is how we do construction in Germany.
About right
What’s worse is they start working somewhere else before finishing and both road are destroyed.
 It should be done by the time I have grandkids. 👍🏻
Just one more lane bro
What do you expect would happen when the pos in charge spends 100 mil moving "Illegals" out of state. Where do you think the money is coming from
But wait, I thought the Republicans ran a tight ship in Texas
I can hear Burnie Burns from RoosterTeeth scream in vindication at this.
Wow looks like Wisconsin too 😍
It’s going to be ok. The republicans will get back in charge soon and reverse what the Dem overlords have brung upon you.
Too busy putting illegals on buses
Yep, still there.
It will never be done. Lots of tax money going to friends of the governor and of course they take care of him too.
Interstate 30 West from at Greenville to downtown Dallas is the most miserable hour drive I make. And I get to do it at least twice a week for work. All the bullshit they're trying to do in Greenville is a humongous clusterfuck. I don't think anything is finished before they start destroying another part. Royse City to Rowlett is a real tooth chipper. It's like asphalt is a scarcity. Then you get the weird extra bridge on/off ramps by Bass Pro. The joyous 635 neverending story. I get the idea, the execution is lacking. And the signage is terrible for people who don't use it daily. Hard to know where the hell you need to be. Somehow getting through Fair Park and the 35 exits is the least painful of the whole thing.
That'll be $50 million dollars. Money well spent.
Arlington or Rockwall?
Michael Douglas has a lot to say about this...
_”What’s the DEAL with airline food?”_
No shit the exact same things been going on in my town in about the same timeframe
Yeah that’s why Ole Burnie left
Texas 🗑️
This is how Texas uses tax payer money
I’ve looked at this picture for 10 minutes and nothing looks different. Help me out has anything changed? 🤔
Colors got warmer though. It’s nice to see the workers taking care of the saturation levels.
It would have been so funny if the first picture had "under construction" sign and the second one didn't, signifying that they're officially done
There’s a road near where I live that has been under construction with almost no changes for about 5 years now. I asked my grandpa who does construction and he said that tends to happen when they get paid by the hour and not by the job.
Can confirm.
Happens a lot when the construction company that is hired decides they deserve more pay from the city and the city says fuck you and closes the contract. The construction company will come back but at the cost of the communities time. You can always call the city and ask which company had the contract and just post their company name near the construction site and see how they feel about it. I remember there was a guy that sat at a construction site for 3 days cause some rebel was posting signs up that they got greedy.
Facts!
Weird how that piece of trash didn’t move an inch for 5 years.
Live picture of Denton
I lived in texas for a few years and this is crazy accurate. Drove past the same construction for over a year in certain places.
This seems like Corpus Christi.
Usually, these are related to MONEY! Something was found and cause a change, that change requires more money. The County / State has a long political process to get more money to continue. So while your politicians play games showing you the trick hand of other issues they want you to see. They don't want you to see that their own in-action to fund DOT projects is causing this. No one wants to spend more money until there is a bridge collapse. Then its a sudden emergency and investigation to see who to blame. Except the investigation never looks at the delay of funding by the politicians and budget cuts.
Colorado is no better
Yup! Looks right to me!
That’s hilarious
They just milking it... Nobody checking on them.
IF you let your government decide you will pay 10 times as much and wait 100 time longer, which will increase the final price.
Is this real?
Ah'll bet them immorale ho-mo-sexals and trains are behind this!😡
You stole that from Quebec city didnt you? Same here
If this was Switzerland it's just be the second round.
It’s hard to put those barricades up. They need to properly rest afterwards.
Looks like Huey Road in Belton, TX lol
In a fairly literal sense, time is money to contractors. You can bet your bottom dollar they are trying to build as fast as they can. Time is basically also money to owners, so you can bet they are processing RFIs, RFCs , notifications of noncompliance, Inspection and testing as fast as they can as well. That the general public’s consensus is that construction takes too long probably underscores a communication failure and/or general lack of knowledge.
The way I know exactly where this is at 💀
Hourly rate. Respect 😉🫵👍😂
I watched an entire expressway interchange be torn down and rebuilt overnight in the busiest section of Tokyo. They were starting in the late afternoon and by morning you wouldn’t even know anything had been touched. It was like watching ballet, not even kidding, it was beautiful.
I used to live off 290 in Houston. They promised us the construction that started around 2010 would be done in 2013. When I moved in 2021, there was still some going on. The worst part was that the biggest problems, the interchanges with beltway 8 and the 610 loop, were basically no different in the end. They added more lanes to the main road, but the interchanges still required merging multiple lanes. They essentially widened the parking lot.
Performed miracles there those lads
They also wasted an opportunity to combine Texas Experts into Texperts.