[Rumplemeyer]

Be clear on something, I don’t make the rules I just follow them.
The DOT made up the schedule for the project and set the work hours and the days no work could be done to accommodate the summer season.
No job is without changes in scope and unforeseen conditions such as unknown utilities, old foundations and abandoned facilities long forgotten. Unfortunately correcting them takes time and money. One of the biggest hold ups is getting the Power Company and the Phone Company to move their poles, it can take months, they work at their own speed.
I agree with you 1000% about the micromanaging by the Feds and the EPA and all the other alphabet agencies, both local and federal.
Do you know that you cannot prune, trim or remove trees during nesting season, no I am not pulling your leg.
I am only telling you the realality of being the contractor doing the work. Yes it is a mess.

As for the South Jersey Light Rail, I stayed as far away from that as I could. I did do the power and communications utilities for the Hudson Bergan Light Rail in Hudson County.

Remember, all public transit is subsidized.

[Olog-hai]

Remember, public transit came about not because of subsidy, but because of private enterprise. It fell under subsidy and state control due to increasing government taxation and regulations, plus increasing organized labor demands in concert with same, resulting in costs outweighing incoming revenue.

I never claimed you wrote these rules. I did claim you were attempting to justify them; of course if I mistook you, I apologize for that. My stance vis-à-vis said rules is that they exist solely for the sake of control from the top and need to be wiped out.