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The rail authority builds very little. The article discusses how it has only 220 employees and vacancies at key positions. As with many horribly over budget and
by shuckles 6y ago
The rail authority builds very little. The article discusses how it has only 220 employees and vacancies at key positions. As with many horribly over budget and shoddy civil engineering projects in California, general contractor Tutor Perini is at the center of this mess.
- jeffbee 6y agoSure, but the point is they need to insulate themselves from cost overruns on these pieces which aren't critical path for the train. If Merced County takes a grant of $50m to build a bridge and it doesn't end up costing $50m, that shouldn't be the railroad's problem. Tutor Perini can go take their change orders to some broke county and try to squeeze blood out of those stones.
- shuckles 6y agoWhy would a county or the state legislators ever let counties, a coherent polity, be turned into a shell company to cover for the rail authority, an incoherent polity?