BERKELEY / Professor rips Caltrans over maze rebuild / He says work was too hasty and costly

BERKELEY / Professor rips Caltrans over maze rebuild / He says work was too hasty and costly:

But Astaneh said Caltrans should have taken the time to do the job right. Instead of simply repairing the fire-damaged portion of a concrete column, he said, all four support columns should have been torn down and rebuilt from scratch. And, said Astaneh, the work could have been done in 21 days for $1.5 million instead of the $5.9 million it cost, including bonuses for early completion, to get it done in 17 days.

and I wonder what four days of the traffic disruption and the economic cost of that disruption would be worth... Just looking at the cost of the repair exclusive of the costs of not having the repair in place is a biased analysis.