> Given that the street is roughly 1km in length, at least some of the work could probably have been done in parallel with multiple crews. This is routine in A

> Given that the street is roughly 1km in length, at least some of the work could probably have been done in parallel with multiple crews. This is routine in Asia. Just look at this video remodeling a railway station in just a few hours [1]. For that to work though, the construction companies need to have the backing of the government that there will always be budget to keep these people employed - even for supposedly "low skill" work such as road construction, recruiting and onboarding costs are significant. But when government appears to be in budget crisis to everyone reading a newspaper, no reasonable construction company will hire more workers than they could also use for private projects (e.g. home construction, garden remodelings, ...) if the government decides to undergo yet another shutdown. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIbZqqLra9k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIbZqqLra9k