Amazing: The Rebuilding the MacArthur Maze (Documentary)

For a counter example, the rebuilding of the MacArthur Maze in 26 days back in 2007. link > A contractor with a proven track record of rebuilding damaged freeways (most notably the Santa Monica Freeway after the 1994 Northridge earthquake) well ahead of schedule, C. C. Myers, Inc., submitted a winning bid of $876,075 to repair the damage to the I-580 connector. The bid was estimated to cover only one-third of the cost of the work, but the firm counted on making up the shortfall with an incentive of $200,000 per day if the work was completed before June 27, 2007. > On the evening of Thursday, May 24, the I-580 connector re-opened, just before the busy Memorial Day weekend. The deadline to finish the project was beaten by over a month, with the contractor earning the $5 million bonus for early completion. The entire reconstruction project was completed only 26 days after the original accident. Amazing: The Rebuilding the MacArthur Maze - ▶ this video

There's also the MacArthur Maze collapse in the Bay area 2007 [1] The overpass collapsed on April 29th. They had it reopened to traffic 26 days later. This was American leadership, project management and engineering at it's finest [2]. [1] link [2] ▶ this video

Plenty of examples of massive speedups in repairs: 1: link 2: ▶ this video It's not that we can't "build quickly," but that we can't build anything _new_ quickly.

What developers think when they hear 'aggressive timeline': link What managers think: ▶ this video Point being, nobody gets a documentary about themselves made for delivering against a boring deadline.