Freeway Work With No Workers

Re “Dicey Dance: The 55/22,” Feb. 5:

Unsubstantiated and empty excuses for delays from Caltrans engineers do nothing to convince those of us who are experienced victims of Orange County’s five decades of freeway construction.

We have all seen excellently executed projects, such as the Santa Ana Freeway widening, and yet have been discouraged again and again by the kind of shoddy planning exemplified in the state Costa Mesa Freeway project. Daily, thousands of us are angered as we approach the 55 on Chapman and Katella avenues after long backups only to find not a single construction worker in sight. Did Caltrans contract with a company too small to handle such a project?

J.W. BROWN

Santa Ana