"...factual information that you can document..."?
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"The 2013 Parsons Brinckerhoff cost estimate showed increases in almost every phase of the project. The company reported higher costs for land acquisition, viaducts, tunnels, electrical systems and professional services, largely driven by difficult segments of track that would run through mountains from Palmdale to Bakersfield.
The document was never made public, and the state rail agency declined a Times request to provide it under the state's public records act. The Times later obtained it from an engineer close to the project."
When power politics, big money, and institutional ambition are in play "facts" go into the woodwork. When the GG Bridge roadway was rebuilt the way for rail was "paved" so to speak. When BART has colonized Geary the masses will be told of BART across the Bridge. It will be reminiscent of the Vatican a few years when it announced a major doctrinal change with the introduction something like "We have made some new discoveries..."