according to this they built 55 miles of motorway in 19 months…in 1959…with todays advances in technology why does it take 3 years to alter 1 junction like cathorpe■■?
A glacier is faster. Continental drift is slower. 
Perhaps because they are now working on a live motorway?
Might be quicker if they close the motorway completely for a few months
Too preoccupied ordering cool new sunglasses on their smartphones.
This is easy - Health and Safety - every things got to be assessed and signed off and then inspected again and then signed off…
Socketset:
This is easy - Health and Safety - every things got to be assessed and signed off and then inspected again and then signed off…
Then paperwork gets lost so they start again…
xamtex:
according to this they built 55 miles of motorway in 19 months…in 1959…with todays advances in technology why does it take 3 years to alter 1 junction like cathorpe■■?
Because they can’t completely shut two motorways and a major A road for the time it could be done in if they did.
OK then here’s a better comparison, It took 1year 8 months to build the new 2.8 mile A5758 between Switch island and Thornton 
Talking to a couple of guys who did motorway construction - most of it was caused by having lots of different contractors involved in every part of the job, each having their own H&S rubbish and spending an hour every shift going through all the H&S stuff with all supervisors…then giving this “wisdom” down to the bods on the ground.
No contractors are that worried about anyone else, so they tend to hold each other up which causes a few issues. Lying to the site management team is of course a requirement at this stage and blaming the other guy.
Night closures cause their own issues, as you have to be conservative about the amount of work being done so the road opens on time, which translates for the contractors as the whole job is charged at three times the price and twice the timescale so lots of sleepy for the employees. That is what your taxes go on.
It might work better if they had a better ratio of working people to watching people, currently they seem to be on a 4:1 system, thats 1 working while 4 watch.
On two stretches of the M3, one 3 mile one 5 mile, I saw a total of eight “workers”, two digging & six watching. I haven’t noticed anyone on the M1 j28-j30 working for weeks, ditto the A1m scotch corner to leeming. Twelve miles takes three years! That’s progress.
Big Roy:
OK then here’s a better comparison, It took 1year 8 months to build the new 2.8 mile A5758 between Switch island and Thornton
You want a competition for slow. A roundabout has just been put in (needlessly) to replace a T junction near me… about a year !
Hoping this pic will work - illustrates the problem:
The delays in adding the Average speed cameras … 
trevHCS:
Hoping this pic will work - illustrates the problem:
Not a Hi-Viz in sight, Surely there would be at least 2 other bods, one with a box of Gloves & safety goggles to hand out & check, and another with a clipboard giving the toolbox talk & checking on the boots & hi-viz’s
The HR Manager and the internal supervisor should get a nice kick if someone lights up 