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I'd just be happy if they'd start when the signs go up and stay there until complete. Round here, signs go up but no work just delays. Then they get around to it eventually but even then it's like 9 months depending on the job I suspect it's all budget based. Start the job during a budget cycle then get to it when crews are freed up.
Over here in germany, the government almost always picks the contractor who makes the cheapest offer for any given job. That almost always leads to them not finishing the job, so roads stay closed until the government picks a new contractor. And if they don't pick a new contractor for 6 months, there are no consequences whatsoever.
This dispels so many of my assumptions about German efficiency. I’ve always wanted to drive the autobahn. Please tell me that would be enjoyable…
German government procurement is horrendously inefficient, but it's because of incredible levels of transparency to try to prevent corruption.
It means that even the most minute purchases come with lots of beurocracy attached.
You can look at it almost as its own kind of corruption, that syphons money into the beurocracy, but it does mean that things aren't happing without people knowing, and that, for an extreme example, when you decide to invade another country isn't the moment when you discover that you discover that most of your equipment had been sold for vodka money a decade ago!