austin contractor

The way we've always done it is always the best way to do it
A city "policy" in Austin, Tex., is that restoring traffic flow in construction zones takes precedence over other interests. Residents of a neighborhood where a new sewer line is going in have noticed that the contractor spends the first few hours of every work day digging up the street and the last few hours of every work day putting the dirt back down and laying asphalt over it (so that traffic can resume at night). That means the contractors are spending about half their time re-digging the same hole and then re-laying the same dirt and pavement. Seriously. American-Statesman
     Posted By: Chuck - Fri Oct 10, 2008
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And you expected better from a city whose semi-official motto is "Keep Austin Weird"? (weird often = inefficient, idiosyncratic, half-baked) But I do love it here!
Posted by larriann on 10/10/08 at 10:27 AM
Makes sense to me. Here in Athens most underground work is usually put off until the street in question has been repaved.

BTW Iarriann, your mayor wouldn't happen to have shares in or own either a construction company or asphalt factory by any chance?
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 10/10/08 at 11:13 AM
I think the problem here are lawyers.

The internet has at least made me realize that New Orleans is not the only city in the US that wastes money and makes really stupid decisions.
Posted by Madd Maxx on 10/10/08 at 12:27 PM
Everything is bigger in Texas... including the wasting of time.
Posted by KW in Dallas, TX on 10/10/08 at 01:26 PM
Here in Maine, we would just have one-lane traffic in the area for a day or two: first on one side, then on the other side of the road.
Posted by stpatme on 10/11/08 at 02:06 AM
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