"The article mentioned $1/2 bil for Union Station improvements that hasn't been delivered - by whom?"

I believe it was referring to:

"LA Metro Link Union Station Project $423 million*" from the authority as part of Prop 1a bookend funding. "* This funding commitment to Link Union Station Project is in progress. "

These bonds have yet to go out for bid.

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FUD Wrote:
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> The article ... was HSR started backward? Not
> really. The Proposition places a lot of
> constraints on what can be done with the bond
> money, and provided nowhere near enough to
> credibly attack the mountains at either end of a
> Valley segment - Valley line was all that could
> reasonably be built. However, anything done to the
> "bookends" (Caltrain, and Metrolink from Sylmar to
> Anaheim) that would improve them for ultimate HSR
> use also qualifies, and inarguably should be done
> to maximize public benefit. The article mentioned
> $1/2 bil for Union Station improvements that
> hasn't been delivered - by whom? If it was fed
> money I can understand given the change of
> administration, but then why didn't Obama deliver
> considering how long the run-through tracks
> project has been around? Was it just lack of
> interest/attention by local politicians?
>