But the company owned by C. C. Myers, a 6-foot-5 contractor who favors peacock cowboy boots, fixed the mangled freeway so fast that some residents have recalibrated their respect for the California Department of Transportation, which hired him.
The state estimated that repairs to the 165-foot-long ramp between Interstates 80 and 580 would take 50 days and cost $5.2 million. For every day short of the June 26 deadline, it promised a $200,000 bonus, not to exceed a total of $5 million. The highest bid came in at $6.4 million. Mr. Myers’s company, C. C. Myers Inc., won with the lowest bid — $867,075 — and completed the project in 17 days, winning the full $5 million.
Compared to the repairs after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, the pace of this was blistering. Many of the Loma Prieta reparis took several years, and were finished after the repairs done in SoCal after the 1994 Northridge quake. The new section of the Bay Bridge is still under construction, 18 years after the quake.
I love his quote: “This ain’t no $800,000 project,”
Do not play poker with this guy.
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- bill 6-02-2007 5:43 pm
Compared to the repairs after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, the pace of this was blistering. Many of the Loma Prieta reparis took several years, and were finished after the repairs done in SoCal after the 1994 Northridge quake. The new section of the Bay Bridge is still under construction, 18 years after the quake.
- mark 6-02-2007 7:47 pm [add a comment]
I love his quote: “This ain’t no $800,000 project,”
Do not play poker with this guy.
- jaschwarz (guest) 6-02-2007 9:14 pm [add a comment]