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vivamario t1_itv0tdo wrote

Reply to comment by Oneirox in Why is 28 the most dysfunctional road ever designed? by sudosudoku

Yeah, PennDOT just completely shut down during Covid. Restarting that animal took time so a lot of the lettings got bunched up.

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scorched_mirth t1_ity28zk wrote

COVID is when highway reconstruction should have shifted into overdrive to get work done while traffic was minimal. Why didn’t they do that?

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vivamario t1_itzu7hu wrote

I'm not in PennDOT, so I can't say for sure, but I think it's that no one thought about engineering. Those guys have the fancy offices downtown and in the surrounding towns and were all shut down pretty quick.

I stayed busy all through Covid, but actually go laid off last year because of the lettings all getting pushed. Engineering needed to be working on designs during Covid so that there were projects to bid, but they didn't so end of 2020 through 2021 barely had any lettings and they all got pushed to earlier this year.

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