Re: Question for BOB2 Yeah well.... How good is their "word" and how competent have they shown themselves to be?
Author: BOB2
Date: 04-01-2021 - 19:48
Paul K. Wrote:
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> "Congress will be more interesting, in how the
> sausage is actually made... But, the chances of
> good projects like LA Union Station run
> through..would likely fare better under a
> competitive grant and/or state population based
> "formula" allocation"
>
> I thought you said the LAUPT track project was
> funded and due for service by 2028 ????
>
Well, there's a funding "commitment" from the CHSRA for the LAUS run through by 2027, in theory....
But, if you've been following the tales of the CA High Speed fiasco lately, like with the CA Senate hearings last month, you might just get the feeling that some folks wiht half a lick of good sense, might seem to think that with the continued mismanagement and cost overruns on the fiasco in the Valley, that this funding "commitement" may well also fall into the infinite forces of the gravitational "black hole" of the infinite ecost overurns of the "runaway money train"...
The recent statement by ACS Dragados, (an international firm with a serious track reord in finance/design/build, caveat added, that I have worked with on several potential finance/design/build potential public private parternships..) that took some risk in doing this project, appears to be publicly "washing their hands" (A Spanish firm at Easter) and, actually telling the truth, about further delays and cost overruns, due to failure of basic due diligence in land condemnations by the CAHSRA.
So, maybe there will be a run through finished at LAUS by the 2028 Olympics, or maybe not.... As the Zen Master likes to say: "We'll see..."