The burned out section of I-85 in Atlanta will open this weekend. The contractor rebuilding the section was offered incentives for every day before June 15 that the construction was completed. The contractor worked 24 hours a day and now the highway will reopen over the weekend. The contractor will receive $3.1 million for finishing the job early. Another triumph for capitalism. Under socialism, the rebuild would have prolly taken over two years.
Bravo, now make sure it doesn’t happen again, if possible.
More likely two years of “who makes the biggest bribe” to settle in…..
The same thing happened in CA in 1994. “C.C. Myers Inc., the construction company that rebuilt the Santa Monica bridges, earned a nearly $14-million bonus for finishing in less than three months.”
Yeah, even Kommiefornia can gt things done if they let the private sector loose.
https://www.tradelineinc.com/reports/2007-10/unprecedented-teamwork-repairs-collapsed-freeway-record-time
The prime contractor on this job, C.W. Matthews is a world class engineering firm with deep experience in road and bridge construction. They were precisely the right company to bring in to do this, and probably one of only a few similar firms that could have pulled it off.
Early completion bonuses are standard in the construction industry and frankly whatever C.W. Matthews has earned on this, they deserve it.
Only 2 years to rebuild this bridge under Socialism ?…..Must not have been very much damage. I am always amazed at the slow pace of Government Projects …….except for the original Alaskan Highway
Some 16,000 soldiers living in tents who labored 16 hours a day who constructed hundreds of temporary wooden & pontoon bridges & blazed a roadway across Alaska & Canada more then 1400 miles thru tundra , muskeg, forests , fighting perma frost in Temperatures from -70 to +90 degrees.
The road was completed in 8 months at an estimated cost of 138 million dollars & without the equipment customary in use today .
Now that was one hell of an accomplishment something the greatest generation took in stride because it needed to be done.
Look at Hoover Dam. Built ahead of schedule and under budget. Of course that was before OSHA and the EPA. I think the Golden Gate Bridge was also built ahead of schedule and under budget.
Hey Denny;
The usual suspects are parroting”It will be open…but will it be Safe”?
The GDOT has said there have been proper inspections at every phase of construction.
So, in the interests of our population and our taxes, why aren’t all roads completed under a similar cost / time contract?
The northwest corridor is costing an ass load off money. Thankfully, it is being completed reasonable quickly.
However, if the bids had gone out with a cost and a TIME frame of less than a year (or whatever) of construction, couldn’t it be done by now? I drive up that way frequently. So many days there is nothing going on, yet lanes are blocked, cones are out, traffic is building up.
If the gov’t can get the I-85 project done in that time, perhaps future road projects need to be appropriately disincentivised to go too long.
Construction is far from my field, but good lord, let’s get people out there on a regular basis to complete these projects.
Whatever. I’m glad they got that one (I-85) done quickly, at least. My neighborhood has been Wazed during the construction. I’m ready for baseline bad Atlanta traffic again!
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Under socialism the repair time would not have been a factor. The bridge would have not been there at all.