Posted on 08/14/2018 12:26:28 PM PDT by simpson96
Seattle’s anti-Trump mayor, Jenny Durkan, may be on track for a political backlash: Her city’s $52 million money splash on public transit appears doomed because new taxpayer-funded streetcars apparently won’t fit the existing tracks.
Durkan’s office has braced city residents for the possibility, the Seattle Times reported.
The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) reportedly ordered 10 new streetcars last year, to help expand the Seattle Streetcar system by linking the two existing streetcar lines.
But the new streetcars also are reportedly heavier and longer than the ones currently in use, raising concerns about whether they'll be used at all.
“It appears the error will require either a change order for design of the streetcars or incur new costs for construction of new or retrofitted maintenance barns,” City Councilmember Lisa Herbold wrote in the city’s blog post last week.
Durkan had to temporarily stop work on the project after revelations that it may cost 50 percent more than previously estimated, the Times reported. The estimated total cost has already increased from $150 million to $200 million.
It's just the latest of several setbacks for Durkan while her national profile continues to rise amid fervent attacks against the Trump administration over immigration, climate change and abortion.
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“As woman mayors, we are doing our part to protect our citizens against the all-out war that the Trump administration has waged against safe, inclusive communities, clean energy, and bold climate action,” she wrote in a tweet.
“Further evidence that Trump’s administration is founded on cruelty and callous disregard for immigrant lives. Seattle stands with Salvadorans against this unjust decision,” she wrote in another tweet, referring to the Trump administration’s decision to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for immigrants from El Salvador.
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Libtards
Men just have the natural ability to fit big things a little tight places.
Hire a man and he’ll get the streetcars on the tracks!
Durkan’s an uber-leftist female mayor who spends all her time attacking Trump and loving on Injun Lizzie. Why on earth would they expect her to be competent as well? Isn’t indisputable leftist bona fides good enough?
She’s L, G, B, and T simultaneously?
Streetcars are soooo last century.
That she fails so spectacularly is actually a feather in her cap because it proves she is oppressed by priviledged white males and Patriarchy.
-PJ
“THEN they found out the new, longer subs DID NOT FIT into the existing docks.”
Having worked for thirty years in the military industrial complex I can tell you what happened. The engineers raised a flag early on. But the people at the top were focused on award fees and bonuses and refused to do anything that would affect schedule. By the time the problem was discovered, the top level people who allowed it to happen had retired (much richer for not avoiding the problem) or had moved on to bigger and better jobs somewhere else.
>Here in Tucson...
And they occasionally have to be pushed uphill.
It would be interesting to see how much they paid some nieces “consulting and design” firm.
Not interesting enough for me to look it up. /g
I guess it is hard for her to look at diagrams when she is so busy running her mouth.
If Seattle would start taxing stupid Democrat politicians, they would have the money to run the monorail to every building.
“She’s L, G, B, and T simultaneously?”
They all translate to delusional.
heh heh heh heh... at least it's $52M that won't goto illegal aliens
Is your #36 trolling the last scene in Hitchcock’s North by Northwest?
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