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Originally Posted by Slava
The rumour I heard (and I have no way of knowing about the accuracy of this to be fair) is that the maintenance contract didn't start until now, so there was no chance of early opening. That makes sense to me, but I don't pretend to understand why they couldn't have pushed this along. I could've saved them a chunk of money by not installing the lights at 53rd!
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I think it was risk mitigation.
The section through the reserve needed to be done by X date or it would have been a billion dollar problem. So you prioritize that scope and only that scope.
Then the contractor would want to avoid heating and hoarding costs over winter so they wouldn’t push ahead with finishing the rest. You can also cut your less efficient crews at that point as well and lower cost that way.
In general shortening schedule increases costs.