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Originally Posted by BlackArcher101
Quite frankly it's because we've seen how long other repairs take, or how long it takes to build something in North America. I'm still shocked we were able to get this done that fast. Now imagine building an overpass that requires the same amount of dirt moved on flat prairie, but told it has to take 1.5 years.
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I think that a lot of that is because they're keeping traffic flowing while they do that work. Without that, it's got to cut that down by at least half, but no one would tolerate them just closing the road entirely to make that work.
And of course, the other factor here is that this was/is an absolute top priority. Crews were working 24/7 here because of the sheer importance of the railway. That's not the case for a suburban overpass, for example.