"When environmentalists raised the alarm about impact on air quality, the state responded by creating a public transit improvement list, designed to fend off a lawsuit.... the foundation sued. The sides renegotiated the list in a 2006 settlement.... In the end, the sides did not agree to actually build the project, only that the state would complete design and engineering....
The advocates’ strategy is often successful in the transportation world: Keep the project moving forward, spending money along the way, so that it will be ready and there will be a sense of inevitability when more money becomes available. But it does not always work out that way."
Why don't you go give the well-meaning fart-mister a hug, 'murkns!
"State to spend $29m designing a project on hold" by Noah Bierman, Globe Staff | July 23, 2009
The state set aside $29 million last week to design a subway tunnel under downtown Boston that planners concede they cannot afford to build - either now or any time in the next two decades.
YOUR TAX DOLLARS at WORK!
Now WHAT could we do with $29 MILLION dollars, 'eh, Bay-Staters?
But the engineering money is slated to be spent within the next two years, even as other projects are cast aside, because the state made a promise, as part of a Solomon-like legal compromise with environmentalists to mitigate the impact of the Big Dig....
How come only LABOR CONTRACTS can be BROKEN, 'eh?
State transportation managers are hardly enthusiastic about having to set aside $29 million for something that may never be built. Transportation spokesman Colin Durrant said, “We’re fulfilling the responsibilities of the legal settlement.’’
Thanks, fart-mist f***s!
Even many of the project’s key supporters, who lent a political boost to a settlement three years ago, have become a little less ardent, noting that the economy is forcing tough decisions.
A spokesman for Partners HealthCare, which owns Massachusetts General Hospital and once threatened to sue to have the connector built, said the project is important, but that there might be a “reason for caution,’’ given the state’s poor financial condition. Partners backs the project because it would provide patients and employees easier access to the hospital.
Yup, NOTHING like SELF INTEREST to get you to do the right thing, 'eh, you price-gouging a**holes?
But the Conservation Law Foundation, which orchestrated the settlement, said the state’s commitment to design and engineer the project is a worthwhile first step. “Obviously, we want to see this project built, but it can’t get there without design and engineering,’’ said Noah Chesnin, a foundation spokesman.
"The Conservation Law Foundation, a New England-based environmental group, says it's not opposed to nuclear power"
Some "environmental" group, 'eh?
Just ONE MORE AGENDA-PUSHING OUTFIT posing as DO-GOODERS!
As with most transportation discussions in Massachusetts, the connector’s history is intricately woven with the tortured history of the Big Dig.
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In 1990, when environmentalists raised the alarm about impact on air quality, the state responded by creating a public transit improvement list, designed to fend off a lawsuit. Years later, when then-governor Mitt Romney backed away from some of those commitments, including the connector, the foundation sued. The sides renegotiated the list in a 2006 settlement.
You have NO IDEA HOW MUCH we MISS YOU, Mitt!
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At the time, state officials said they did not have the money to build the connector. And they insisted that the added Silver Line bus service from South Station to Logan International Airport made it unnecessary to build an addition to the Blue Line, which also serves the airport.
But environmental groups, joined by North Shore officials and Partners HealthCare, argued that it would provide a crucial link in the subway system, allowing East Boston and North Shore residents better access to jobs and healthcare in Boston and Cambridge.
In the end, the sides did not agree to actually build the project, only that the state would complete design and engineering by 2011. Last year, the federal Environmental Protection Agency approved the new deal, which included other transit commitments, giving it the force of law.
The advocates’ strategy is often successful in the transportation world: Keep the project moving forward, spending money along the way, so that it will be ready and there will be a sense of inevitability when more money becomes available.
But it does not always work out that way. A proposed Silver Line bus tunnel along Boylston Street, for example, was recently put on hold indefinitely, even after $46 million was spent on planning....
Yup, $46 million dollars for NOTHING!
So which well-connected group benefited?
Here is where all that environment money is going:
"Accountant indicted in $750,000 fraud
A Westborough accountant was arrested Wednesday on charges that she funded a lavish lifestyle by stealing more than $750,000 from FSL Associates, an environmental engineering company in Brighton, the Suffolk district attorney’s office said.
(Blog editor just shaking his head as the American people inhale and accept this climate change s***. Just another looting operation)
Cynthia Goldberg, 46, who also used the names Cynthia Kussy and Cynthia McDonnell, was arrested after a grand jury issued a 20-count indictment that alleges 10 counts of larceny over $250, five counts of making false entries in corporate books, and five counts of misusing a credit card for more than $250.
Wouldn't you know it: a JEW!!
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What is with the ID THEFTS, Jews?
And how come you never followed up, Globe?
Goldberg pleaded not guilty Wednesday in Suffolk Superior Court. Goldberg, who earned $40 an hour as an accountant, allegedly used corporate credit cards, wrote corporate checks to herself, and used the company’s information to obtain her own line of credit. She allegedly went on shopping sprees to businesses including Petco, Victoria’s Secret, the Ritz Carlton hotel, and local tanning salons.
Yup, the stink Jew was "earning" $40/hour -- but STILL NEEDED to STEAL!
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Related: 3 NJ mayors, 5 rabbis arrested in corruption case
Must be the religion, huh?
