New 96/275 construction nightmare

[soap]

How is this allowed to happen? Why are they allowed to tie-up
a freeway for so long & keeping things so unsafe and only using
a skeleton crew to work? Is this company going to be awarded
another road work contract next year just to do this again?

What do you mean how is it allowed? No one allows it to happen. Contractor are paid XX amount to do a job and they have to do it right no matter how many tries it takes. It's highly unlikely this contractor will be awarded another cable guardrail job.

--Joe

 

[soap]

From my understanding (and correct me if I am wrong).... the contractors dont get paid by the day. They bid to do the job at a certain amount. That is the amount that they get. There are incentives for early completion (extra cash etc). As long as they are being properly inspected, the contractor shouldnt be cutting corners to bust a job out half assed just for the incentives

Correct. Like I said, the contractor is loosing his ass on this job (both materials and labor are 2-3 times what his original bid was).

--Joe

 

[4Gas$]

What do you mean how is it allowed? No one allows it to happen. Contractor are paid XX amount to do a job and they have to do it right no matter how many tries it takes. It's highly unlikely this contractor will be awarded another cable guardrail job.

--Joe

What I mean by “allowed” is what kind of safeguards are in place so
these kinds of problems don’t happen? I’m not looking for perfection
here, just don’t want to see things like this happen again (if avoidable).

Do you think anything could have been in place to have avoided this?

 

[Mach1320]

Have you seen 96 and 23 interchange at Brighton ? It's going to take forever...