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[Don Bowen <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>]

At 12/17/2004, you wrote:
> Eeuuu.  Looks like something Cristo would have done.  Better than Arney Ugly
> but, not something I'd like to see in SF either.
>
> And why would it cost 10 times more?  Geez, that's a no brainer.  CalTrans
> pays $17/hr for a trainee to hold signs on road construction.  The old joke
> about "what's orange and sleeps three" isn't a joke!  If a job will take one
> person, CalTrans has a supervisor, two observers, a sub, a driver and 3
> people to do the job!

I have not been able to find the source of a report.  It indicated that 
Caltrans is one of the worse in the nation about getting highway monies 
turned into streets and roads.  It has the highest level of overhead on any 
state in the nation.

Don Bowen
Awl Knotted Up Woodworking
Valley Center, CA             http://www.braingarage.com