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Another similar repair occurred in 2007 when a truck fire damaged I-880 and I-580 one was repaired in a week and the other 26 days[0].

[0] https://2013.infrastructurereportcard.org/2009/case-study/ma...

Yes! I remember that one too. The contractor had it choreographed down to almost the minute so that prep work for a piece would finish minutes before that piece arrived.

Needless to say, California takes their freeway repair seriously when it is a critical artery through a major metro.

Story I heard for that job was the city offered a $1M early completion bonus. The contractor that won the bid was confident they would beat the deadline and they underbid everyone by the $1M and got the job.

And, yes, they beat the deadline.

The city coped rather well with that whole situation.

Northridge quake was another testament to all of the work that had been put into earthquake safety and building codes over the years.

good test to see if system became more corrupt and disfunctional since then.