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Re: Speakkng of "swamp" critters? And, US-Link funding?
Author: BOB2
Date: 06-11-2021 - 21:56
SP5103 Wrote:
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> A lawyer/bureaucrat without any actual rail safety
> operations experience? Just another gator from the
> swamp?
When did you first personally meet him? And, how long have you personally known him? How many professional positions have you held in various rail agencies (some that seem to have an awful lot to do with rail safety)?
Now that we're all done with that...
Since the CAHSRA has never acknowledged this loss of funding, and was contesting it, is it really "more".... Like with the Governor's Christmas goodies from the surplus, I don't recommend anyone planning on spending this supposed "windfall" quite yet...
I am tending to agree with FUD, that this will only backfill the current cost overrunds in the CAHSRA program of waste, fraund, and taxpayer abuse... Given the record of the CAHSRA, the gold plated bloated budgets and cost overruns will expand accordingly, to fully suck this "found money" down the "runaway money train" black hole, too.
So does this "windfall" mean that US-Link is more or less likey be funded?
Actually, given the controversy, political support, and political pressure he's under, the Governor already back filled it with the amorphous Olympics surplus "slush fund". So my best guess it that the US-Link project will be getting under contract through MTA, probably within the next year, regardless of this interesting developemnt.
Although not a fan, the previous Administration, was probably right in withholding the money by all of the precedent for timely expediture I worked under for FTA and FHWA funds. FRA was never properly staffed or equipped (clear guidance and regulations) to run these funding programs, and so this is another poorly guided program and subject to political calls... Since CA appealed this, it is FRA's call to settle....
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> [www.linkedin.com]
>
> A lawyer/bureaucrat without any actual rail safety
> operations experience? Just another gator from the
> swamp?
When did you first personally meet him? And, how long have you personally known him? How many professional positions have you held in various rail agencies (some that seem to have an awful lot to do with rail safety)?
Now that we're all done with that...
Since the CAHSRA has never acknowledged this loss of funding, and was contesting it, is it really "more".... Like with the Governor's Christmas goodies from the surplus, I don't recommend anyone planning on spending this supposed "windfall" quite yet...
I am tending to agree with FUD, that this will only backfill the current cost overrunds in the CAHSRA program of waste, fraund, and taxpayer abuse... Given the record of the CAHSRA, the gold plated bloated budgets and cost overruns will expand accordingly, to fully suck this "found money" down the "runaway money train" black hole, too.
So does this "windfall" mean that US-Link is more or less likey be funded?
Actually, given the controversy, political support, and political pressure he's under, the Governor already back filled it with the amorphous Olympics surplus "slush fund". So my best guess it that the US-Link project will be getting under contract through MTA, probably within the next year, regardless of this interesting developemnt.
Although not a fan, the previous Administration, was probably right in withholding the money by all of the precedent for timely expediture I worked under for FTA and FHWA funds. FRA was never properly staffed or equipped (clear guidance and regulations) to run these funding programs, and so this is another poorly guided program and subject to political calls... Since CA appealed this, it is FRA's call to settle....
