In Texas, you see some dozers clearing land. You drive by 3 months later and see a strip mall with all stores displaing GRAND OPENING TODAY signs.
In Jersy, you see some dozers clearing land. You drive by 7 years later and see the same 10 union guys watching 1 guy shovel dirt on the platt.
In New York where I live, people have been talking for decades about removing an unsightly overpass which was built in the 1950s. But to replace it with what?
I joked “a tunnel” and everyone laughed, knowing that American government (particularly blue America) simply can’t build things cheaply or easily any longer.