Most of a US public works project's elapsed time is procedure, not construction: freed of the normal sequence, the same agency and crews finish in days or weeks what normally takes a year or more.

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• backsAbundance, Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson

  we've taken discretion and judgment away from people like Carroll. We prefer that projects go badly by the book. We minimize some risks, but make delay and high costs routine.

• groundsAbundance, Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson

  I-95 reopened in just 12 days, not the months initially forecasted.

• groundsAbundance, Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson

  That'd take about 12 to 24 months.

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