"Why would you be purposely phasing construction that includes patches, plates, and gas shutdowns over the winter months?"

Because the winters in Baltimore aren't really all that bad and our work doesn't require the customer to be without gas for prolonged periods of time, (few hours at most). Sure, if the temperature looks like it'll get close to below freezing, we'll stop doing service work until the temperature improves - but work on mains is unaffected.

And yes - the city allows us to "get away" with cold patches. They don't require the use of hot mix like some of the other municipalities & counties do.