We Have Numbers on Freeway Closing!!!!

The City of Portland's Operations Steering Team research found that for every minute a freeway traffic lane is blocked it causes six minutes of traffic delays at an estimated cost more than $12,000 in lost productivity. I wonder whose productivity they considered as lost?

http://www.portlandtribune.com/news/story.php?story_id=117736170173983400

Using their numbers I calculate that if a blockage occurred on I-5 and stopped traffic flow in all three lanes for an hour, the loss in productivity would amount to . . . $360,000.00.

Golly, we could hire 45,000 Illegal Aliens for an hour with that cash flow or 25,000 Gringos with OSHA and taxes.

Now, lets consider the numbers they arrived with is an Average loss in a 24 hour day and then consider the cost of all the Emergency Service people who are involved during the absurdly long ODOT/OSP Traffic Accident Reconstruction/Investigations and ad that to the total tab.

What do you suppose is the hourly cost of the average member of an ODOT/OSP Special Investigations Team? Please note, that may also include the cost of a Forensic Pathologist being called to the scene if any personal injuries are being considered as potentially life threatening.

Ooop's, did I forget to mention PERS over-time?

Now, lets consider the ODOT/OSP Traffic Accident Reconstruction/Investigations are known to close a Freeway for as many as six hours.

6 hours x $360,000.00 = $2,160,000.00.

I still wonder whose productivity they considered as lost as there is a Big difference between private and public payrolls?