To be fair, I have been involved in some very good government construction. I have seen private construction built much to cheaply for the quick buck and seen the facility suffer from it.
One need only to think of shopping center parking lots to understand the difference between cheap and durable. Some are falling apart within a year and some last for decades.
I don’t know the circumstances surrounding those parking lots, and nothing is perfect, but generally things are done much better and the results much more satisfying in the voluntary cooperation and competition of buyers and sellers in the market economy free of government interference. The free market isn’t perfect but it’s way ahead of whatever’s in second place.
If a local project must be run by a local government, the best results will come if the government officials are not politicians but businessmen (the “reasonable” element) and the government is small enough to be answerable to the public (the “accountability” element).