[colechristensen]

>Also, nice to see good old "dude with shovel" in there, a tool that would have looked the same back in the 19th century.

I grew up occasionally using tools of the shovel-variety which sometimes were from the 19th century, and when not, not far off.

Every time I drive through particularly ornery construction I start to fantasize about writing software to optimize the critical path and driver disruption.

I also am left wondering having seen several iterations of "improvement" projects that were followed a number of years later on the same stretch of road with another project... if anybody analyzes the whole effect of the project and if the designed improvement made up for the considerable interruption executing it caused. Like on a "net-positive" basis, would folks have been better off if nothing at all was done and the project just skipped.