Infrastructure Lessons from Venice

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(04-04-2017, 07:28 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: It's definitely not all union. Unions are all but non-existent in some states, Virginia included. What unions do exist are tiny and don't have near the power they do in other states.

As for the cost and the time, there are a lot of things the general public doesn't think about included in a project like that. If we were to create a temporary structure to get troops across a river, the SeaBees or the Army CoE could do it in a matter of hours, most likely. But a project like this is a much more complicated endeavor.

Such as? Because I look at construction and see machines sitting there with nobody working, or 1-2 guys working and 4 guys sitting around.

Always looks to me like they intentionally take their time so there's no/as little of a gap between jobs as possible. Turn a 1 week job into a 1 month job so you don't have your guys with no job to do for 3 weeks while you wait for your next job. Of course then they need paid for 4 weeks of work rather than 1 week.