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Did Phil really get us anything then?
Author: AT BOB2
Date: 04-01-2021 - 21:49
Author: BOB2
Date: 11-23-2020 - 09:50
"I think that there are some upsides for CA with Phil's experience. He did finally drive off some really incompetent political managers at LACMTA. He has gotten us LAUPT run through, and does seem to understand how screwed up CAHSRA is.."
Altamont Press
BOB2 Wrote:
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> Paul K. Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > "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..."
Date: 11-23-2020 - 09:50
"I think that there are some upsides for CA with Phil's experience. He did finally drive off some really incompetent political managers at LACMTA. He has gotten us LAUPT run through, and does seem to understand how screwed up CAHSRA is.."
Altamont Press
BOB2 Wrote:
-------------------------------------------------------
> Paul K. Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > "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..."
