...save the state at least $500 million, it also will entail new environmental reviews that could take 18 months, with another six months to bid and award a contract.
Officials also will have to consider whether, and how, a new span design will fit with the bridges existing $294-million foundations that are more than 50% complete and how to reduce the cost of the single-tower design. In addition, says McPeak, "we need to get seismic performance analysis on cable-stayed bridge alternatives."