I was recently at an intersection where workers were repainting the directional arrows and stop lines on the road. They had signs that said, “wet paint,” but it did not remain wet for long, as we were driving over it seconds after it had been sprayed on. I wondered why all paint wasn’t made to dry that fast.
It reminded me of other rapid repairs that Departments of Transportation have pulled off. In Massachusetts, MassDOT replaced a bridge over I-90 in just two weekends by using “accelerated bridge construction methods.” Traffic was reduced to one lane, but it was still possible to pass during the construction.
When the container ship crashed and collapsed the bridge, the Port of Baltimore was reopened in just 78 days — 11 weeks — and it took less than two weeks for the I-95 bridge to handle traffic after a fiery crash melted the bridge there.
Whether in road construction or in your organization, most things can be expedited if we are willing to pay for them. Perhaps it’s worth your investment to accelerate completion on key priorities instead of using delays as the reason why there has been no movement.
