A freeway grows in Oakland

When government - and private contractors - work:

For a man whose confidence in his construction company borders on braggadocio, C.C. Myers was noticeably nervous on the ninth night after he promised to rebuild the fire-damaged MacArthur Maze in just 25 days.
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Twenty-six days later, I-580 opened at 8:40 p.m. Thursday -- in time for this morning's commute and in line with Myers' prediction. Nobody had expected such a speedy recovery for the much-maligned maze, an often-congested interchange traveled by 280,000 vehicles every day.

I expected months and months of traffic hell when I first heard about the accident. This is quite impressive. Now, tell me why again we still don't have a new, earthquake-safe bay bridge 18 years after Loma Prieta?