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I recently ran into the MDOT project manager for a rebuild/expansion of a section of I-75. With some googling I found that she was working on the project since 2001 - construction started in 2016 and is not scheduled to be completed until 2030.

So she will be working on the project for 30 years; her entire career... something is pretty broken about the government structures around these projects.

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I know that this can happen because my wife started her federal government career in one agency working with someone who retired from the agency shortly after she started. This person had spent their entire career at DOT managing projects along the interstate between Houston and Galveston. The expansion/maintenance over that time period guaranteed that nothing was ever truly completed. Crews/contractors simply shifted down the highway to the next place scheduled for repairs or lane additions.

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