General Road and Highway Discussion

[Viewfromthe42]

I've seen this coming for weeks...some of the work in Uptown is being pushed to 2018:
"new timeline for road work between Erb and Bridgeport went from 14 weeks to 24.5 weeks. She said nearly 25 per cent of the project is now being deferred until 2018."

Was it all the rain that slowed things so much?

It wouldn't surprise me if the rain slowed it a good deal, but how much of the delays relate to that I don't know. I do believe this was also an instance of work (pipes) that could have been done in one big go with the same work being done on ION, but where businesses said it would be much better to spread out the pain, and now they are getting the consequences of that.

It really wouldn't surprise me to see with global warming (increased water temperatures causing more evaporation, increased air temperatures keeping evaporation longer, increased air temperatures causing humid air to blow farther) cause statistically higher precipitations in a lot of places around the globe, with construction cost and delay increases a logical result of this.