I have been pondering the Highway 49 cost overrun by Caltrans for over a week now. I wanted to come up with a non-hostile way to voice my frustration and offer a solution. Thank goodness for letters to the editor. The solution seems so obvious that one has to wonder why it does not occur. Solution: Don’t let a bureaucratic institution ever do a job that could be done by a company in the private sector that got the job via an open competitive bidding process. It does not take a rocket scientist to see all the extra people hanging …