Bids were so low on the Westside Parkway that Alan Tandy is getting excited about building it faster.
Phase I is building Mohawk over the Kern River. Phase II was going to be the parkway itself from Truxtun near 99 to Coffee, but now they're looking at pushing all the way out to Calloway on the next shot, and with an interchange, not an at-grade crossing, at Calloway.
Tandy said he wants to be in position for Bakersfield to claim money if Congress decides to stimulate the economy with an...