The US is, infamously, nearly incapable of quickly completing major public works projects at any cost, and when they eventually do get done they cost double or more what they would have in other developed countries.

It's, among other things, part of the body of evidence that Civil Law may be notably more efficient than Common Law. Britain's also unusually bad in this department, though not as much as the US (the Civil vs Common thing probably isn't the whole story anyway—it's rarely that simple)

>infamously, nearly incapable of quickly completing major public works

Unless it's roads