The California bullet train is facing at least another billion dollars of proposed cost increases from its contractors, following a history of sharp cost growth on construction work over the last eight years, The Times has learned. The state’s High-Speed Rail Authority has mostly approved such increases in the past, and if it does so again, contractors could proceed with …
Work progresses on the Purple Line subway at La Brea and Wilshire Boulevard last year. Metro’s decision last year to hire Tutor Perini to build the second phase of the Purple Line reversed Chairman and Chief Executive Ronald Tutor’s long exclusion from L.A.’s rail building boom. Metro chief program office manager Rick Clarke said the cost estimate reflects Tutor Perini’s …
Engineers have built about 24,000 bridges in California over the last century, but a new one under construction in Madera County for the state’s bullet train project shows that they can still lead to serious blunders. Tutor Perini, the lead contractor building a 32-mile section of railway near Fresno, had completed part of a tall highway bridge that would go …
