The deadline for the contractor per the contract was June 29. However, that does not mean that Caltrans’ 5 Million dollar estimate was based on that timeframe. When the accident first happened we heard estimates from one month to several months.
I am waiting for the recriminations along the lines of “they did it so fast, Caltrans’ time frame was way to generous, and the incentive payments are excessive, since the contractor did the work in less than half the allotted time.” If the road opens on Friday as planned, I figure this “storyline” should appear in the Chronicle by the middle of June.
That storyline will last only until the next big Caltrans in-house production exceeds its final time to completion estimate. Again.
Then it will quietly disappear.