Are any of you critics familiar with the details of the project? Have any of you ever reconstructed a highway in a old, high density population tourist area? Have any of you ever built a road or taken the risks of bidding large public works projects in urban area.
I have, that job is a bear, and the Contractors, Harms, Reid Agate, Reid and Creamer do not do business in the Bada Bing Club.
Your comments make you sound foolish.
And in closing Governor Christie had NO say in who got what, it was strictly based on low bidder wins.
Funny how “low bid” results in the highest per-mile costs in history. This has been happening a lot in NJ. With all due respect, who are you trying to kid? This is
not an urban area; this is on a peninsula between the Atlantic Ocean and Barnegat Bay, very suburban and was once rural. And even the “urban area” excuse falls flat in the face of contractors being paid to not work.
There is more detail at the
Asbury Park Press writeup. None of the costs are actually related to rebuilding the portion of roadwday to withstand another hurricane, but for work stoppages, and also extraneous nonsense (some of which the federal micromanagers ordered) such as dedicated bike lanes and sidewalks.