Comment: A little background on Shailen Bhatt - zero construction experience. A lifetime government bureaucrat with a BA in economics from that academic powerhouse Western Kentucky. 

I hope the contract includes an absolute ironclad clause that any budget overruns will be absorbed by Kiewit. All you need to know about Kiewit is they were in charge of the endless T-Rex project and the even longer Glenwood Canyon fiasco. 

The net effect of this $1.2 billion project will be adding a toll lane in either direction of TEN miles of highway. It better be paved with gold. - and oh yeah, it is turning City Park golf course into a runoff pond.