So while driving home from last night’s Nous Non Plus show at Café du Nord at around 12:30 am last night, I was pleased to see that the I-580 connector was reopened — I drove across it en route home.
C.C. Myers sounds like a helluva guy, as in this previous anecdote about his getting part of I-10 in LA done on time in 1994.
He rode his crews hard, praising, goading and yelling in equal measure. When he had trouble getting steel delivered from Texas, he hired a train — at a cost of $119,000 — to haul it. When concrete didn’t come fast enough, he called the head of the company at home and demanded more.
Four hundred men and women worked around the clock. Payroll hit $1 million a week. When workers complained about the grueling pace, Myers offered bonuses, donated money to their kids’ Little League teams and handed out $30,000 worth of restaurant gift certificates. Whatever it took.
It’s safe to assume he pulled the same trick here.
