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Re:Electrified cement could turn houses and roads into nearl... by Supermancho on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @02:29PM (#36960273)
> The cities are already perpetually under construction/maintenance and still, there's decade-old potholes in some places.

Talk about endless construction, see London. Improvements come gradually with new construction, then the old are propped up/covered up/stripped-and-refaced as long as they are useful and upgraded when convenient.

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Re:Electrified cement could turn houses and roads into nearl... by freitzkriesler2 on Saturday August 05, 2023 @12:35PM (#37013717)
The UK is astronomical with how it does their permitting, planning, and PM.

Oxford's wolvercote roundabout took like 3 or 4 years to complete for what could have amounted to a year of work for any American crew.

Want to hear a joke? Skanska workers working.

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