To be fair, that’s kinda comparing apples to oranges. The delay for BRT is not city council (they approved it long long ago), but just the fact that when the city put it thru the normal Bid Process, and no contractors submitted. Typically, this means staff have to rewrite the call for bids in a way to actually get contractors interested. And I bet dollars to donuts that’s not something easy to do in just a couple months. Those things are hella complicated—particularly when the project’s budget has already been established and set.
Contractors in this state are well known to eye the big bucks above all else—they’ll go in a big catfight with each other tooth and nail for a big NCDOT major highway project, but for smaller local stuff, you hear crickets.
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