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Don't just look at the "big 5". I know people there. A lot of the things people get frustrated about are things MDOT requires them to do. Not long ago I was li
by mfer 4y ago
Don't just look at the "big 5". I know people there. A lot of the things people get frustrated about are things MDOT requires them to do.
Not long ago I was listening to someone at one of those "big 5" companies complain about how new state rules were radically increasing the time it takes to pave a road while increasing costs, too. All with no quality difference in the end. As a tax payer, they were frustrated by it.
- paulmd 4y agoWhat specifically? I can run it by that relative and see what he thinks. He's also expressed the inverse to me, that a lot of times they are trying to get the contractors to do things a specific way and the contractors just wanna rush through as fast as they can and get to the next contract. Sometimes, like in most engineering, there are reasons things need to be done a specific way, but building a road isn't really a collaborative thing, they just need to build it the way it was ordered.