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Lawmakers press on escalating project costs after staff cites scope changes and inflation
Summary
The committee examined projects whose engineered estimates rose sharply since programming (notably Clinkridge, which rose from a 2014 preliminary plan of about $13.2M to a current estimate near $31M), and staff said scope additions and inflation explain much of the increase but that treatment revisions could cut costs.
Senate Transportation members on March 19 scrutinized several projects whose updated design estimates exceeded earlier programming figures, asking staff to explain scope changes, inflation effects and what could be done to reduce costs.
Matt Pagotic, highway safety design program manager, pointed to projects flagged in the department's 10G expanded-cost reports. He said one example, Clinkridge (a post-Irene project), had a preliminary-plan estimate from 2014 of about $13.2…
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