I’d just be happy if they’d start when the signs go up and stay there until complete. Round here, signs go up but no work just delays. Then they get around to it eventually but even then it’s like 9 months depending on the job I suspect it’s all budget based. Start the job during a budget cycle then get to it when crews are freed up.

My parents would always point at the “end roadwork” signs and say “protest sign!” So I taught that to my now-wife. At first she hated it, now she does it herself