The Californica Saga Continues...

You'd think that Jim - as an engineer - would be aware that more detailed cost estimates tend to end up higher than less well-researched preliminary estimates. The reporter hasn't gone to trouble of detailing where the extra costs came from, which does suggest to the cynical observer that they might not have been easy to anticipate.

A lightly edited version of what was written by

-Kurt Schlichter, townhall.com, 2017_04_06

It is exactly as accurate as the original - not very - and does illustrate that conservative propagandists aren't great on supporting their claims with any reference to objective fact.

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Bill Sloman, Sydney

Taxyourtwoshits had the Big Dig, so Kalifornika has to one-up them with a choo-choo to nowhere, for no one.

Bechtel knew very well what the final cost of the Big Dig would run to as early as 1993, and their figures from that time adjusted for inflation are roughly congruent with what it actually ended up costing.

But the Weld administration was Republican through-and-through, and had no intention of ever paying today's bills today, and definitely not ever telling the public things they didn't want to hear about the projects they were running.

But they ain't done yet. The thing started falling apart the day they opened it.

As I understand it... it's still leaking ?>:-} ...Jim Thompson

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Ten years too late.

Those who were Democrats through and through got the rest of the country to pay the bills.

It was a must-do project to replace an Eisenhower-era hack-job. Can't really blame them, the engineers and managers probably thought we'd all be driving atomic-powered flying cars by the year 2000 and would've thought it mad their work was still in daily use 50 years later.

It was also kind of a hack-job but on paper at least about the best you could pull off given the requirement that the roadways being replaced had to remain open for traffic.

Being Bostonians and by association Americans Boston residents love to piss, moan, and complain/joke about it and their taxes being wasted and then hop in their cars and drive on it everyday.