The company is Lane Construction out of Waco. This is an open hole in pavement surrounded by construction debris. The area was left open like this overnight, public can access it and there was no lighting. It is illegal for us to leave open holes like this at ANY time without a barrier to prevent cars, employees and citizens from falling into the hole or tripping over debris. Also about 1000 feet further to the South is an even more dangerous excavation which is about 200ft long and 3-4ft deep without ANY type of barrier protecting traffic and citizens from dropping into the hole. Multiple sites are like this or even worse. Aside from the total disregard for public safety, the construction of the sound barrier walls is as bad as anything I have ever seen. The amount of repair that is needed on certain sections is unbelievable. Drunken monkeys could have done better. ENTIRE sections are scheduled for demolition and rebuild. The contractor that I worked for is working under T&M contingency (time and material). The have hired a bunch of unskilled/low skilled workers for $12/hr which they turn around and bill the General Contractor(CH2M Hill) 4-6 times that amount. Material is billed at twice the cost. Unused new tools are stacked in containers by the dozens. Every piece of heavy equipment is under rental and is being billed at 2x (a large 350 type excavator costs $25k/month rental for example). A Lot of the equipment is not even used and is present for billing purposes only. The overbilling is not a secret and is openly bragged about. It's YOUR tax $$$ Austinites and it is being misused and stolen outright. It is also a TXDOT project and every taxpayer in Texas is being robbed. Hopefully this answers a few questions....