bridge delay cost $81 million

way to go Arnie, we'll just add this to your $65 million tab for that useless special election. wow, what a cost saver this guy is.

Bay Bridge pause cost $81 million
Foundation project had shut down as design debate raged
Michael Cabanatuan, Chronicle Staff Writer
Thursday, December 8, 2005

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's failed bid to change the design of the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge cost taxpayers and toll-payers $81 million to stop -- and restart -- work on the foundation of the suspension span's single tower, Caltrans announced Wednesday.

A committee overseeing construction of the $6.3 billion project agreed recently to pay the money to joint venture Kiewit-FCI-Manson to cover the costs of the off-and-on project. The anticipated cost of the changes had been built into the total cost of the span when the state Legislature passed a new funding deal for the bridge in July.

Construction, which was halted nearly a year ago, resumed late last month as contractors returned a huge piece of steel equipment to the bay -- the first major step in building the footings for the suspension span.
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