To be fair to the city though, this has less to do with them and more to do with the way publically-funded infrastructure has to be bid out to contractors. I’ve heard of NCDOT having this issue before, particularly in small bridge replacement projects in rural areas. If a private contractor looks at a project and they don’t immediate see big shiny dollar signs in their eyes, they tend to pass for the next big thing. Or overbid higher than the city/county/state/feds budget limit.
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