![]() The agreement covers design, construction, maintenance and operation of the express lanes. “I’m fully confident that we will have the team capable to design and construct this project in the next 5 1/2 years to the satisfaction of the public and the agencies that we work for,” Tony Bagheri, executive vice president for OHL USA Inc., told board members.Įarlier on Monday, the OCTA board, with more members participating, approved by a 15-1 vote on a toll operating agreement with Caltrans for the I-405 project. The OCTA began studying the busy corridor in 2003 and “that set the stage for this being one of the centerpieces” of Measure M, the county’s half-cent sales tax for transportation improvements passed in 2006, the authority’s CEO Darrell Johnson said.Ĭonstruction is slated to start in early 2017 with the new regular and express lanes at the center of the highway opening in 2023. Monday’s milestone makes the I-405 Improvement Project the first in California that will be built following the passage of AB 401, which allows regional transportation agencies and Caltrans to use a design-build method to deliver highway projects in a way that reduces time and cost. “The bottom line is, we got the exact road we’ve asked for at the exact price we think is fair and we can actually pay to build this road,” OCTA board member Jeffrey Lalloway said. and Astaldi Construction Corporation – which offered the lowest price for the job of three qualified bidders. OCTA board members, by a 14-0 vote, selected OC 405 Partners – a team of firms led by OHL USA Inc.
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