Politics & Government

Tunnel Project $30 Million Over Budget

Contract change orders responsible for the price overruns.

Caltrans' Devil's Slide Tunnel project has run about $30 million over budget, the Half Moon Bay Review reported Wednesday.

According to the Review, the cost overruns are a result of several contract change orders made by the state transportation agency over the last four years.

Other recent project setbacks have cost both time and money, such as the discovery of that will delay the opening of the tunnels in late 2012 and between two area water districts earlier this year.

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