Caltrans will be at HMB City Council tonight

Comment 1 by William Hill  on  May 16  at  5:14pm  •  All my comments • 

In Eric Rice’s well-researched and comprehensive modern history of Devil’s Slide that appeared in the Review in 2001, he indicated that the best case prevailing estimate for the completion of the tunnel was 2006. Would anyone care to enlighten us as to the nature of the delay? Perhaps this would be an excellent, albeit slightly off-topic question to put to Mr. Moghbel this evening.

Review article:

http://www.greenfoothills.org/news/2001a/11-19-01_HMBReview.html

William Hill

Bill, Whenever a project goes to caltrans it is placed into special capsule to that allows its experience of time to slow down. The outside observer experiences time the same way, but as the project approaches the speed of completion, the project obtains its own time scale that cannot be referenced by the outside world. In short, using the CT time scale, 2011 is 2005. I could give you the actual formula for the conversion but my keyboard doesn’t have the complete Greek alphabet necessary for representing the variables in the explication. Hiesenberg’s Uncertainty Principal is corollary insofar as you can never determine the position of the CT administration and the (Mission) Butterfly Effect also buttresses the time line discrepancy observations. Tim

As a follow-on to Tim’s funny-but-true comment, I’d like to remind people that when the SR 92 uphill passing lane construction was basically complete, CalTrans kept the “construction zone” signs up for many many more months, going out for a couple of hours a week to piddle around just so that they could say it wasn’t yet finished. We drove past blocked-off lanes for months waiting for CalTrans to run out of excuses.

That said, I’m sure that lawsuits filed by a certain pro-bypass person trying to stop the tunnel just might have caused some of the delay.