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To: ilovesarah2012

They are probably not releasing the name of the engineer because they don’t want him opening his big mouth before they all get their stories straight.

This entire situation is more complicated than I have made it sound. It never really was about saving 70 people 4 minutes 5 times a day. That is just a lie they have repeatedly told the public.

The Amtrak Cascades is actually run by the State of Washington and Oregon and Amtrak is their contractor. Despite subsidizing passenger fares by 2 to 1, meaning that the State of Oregon and Washington pay $2 for every $1 that a passenger pays, the Amtrak Cascades still loses $250 Million dollars every year not including capital expenditures.

Nationwide publicly owned passenger rail projects are basically always huge money pits. This makes them ripe for the picking when it comes to political cronyism. It is a big scam that the left is hugely dependent on in many cases. Sound Transit was recently voted an additional $50 Billion dollars which by the notes are due will easily balloon into two or three times that amount.

There is so much money involved that unusual behavior and situations that cannot be explained occur because of behind the scenes deals and arrangements. This is government at its very worst... which is the result of a very easily manipulated liberal electorate on the Western side of Washington.

this kind of money can manipulate the truth so badly that one would swear the Clintons were involved.


162 posted on 12/19/2017 11:06:06 AM PST by fireman15
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To: fireman15

“Sound Transit’s day to day operations are expected to lose $190 million in 2017. Tax revenues exceed the capital improvement budget for the year, so the net loss will only be $131 million.[5]”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_Transit


163 posted on 12/19/2017 11:16:33 AM PST by ilovesarah2012
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To: fireman15

“The current CEO of Sound Transit is Peter Rogoff. He served as President Obama’s Federal Transit Administrator and Under Secretary of Transportation for Policy in the U.S. Department of Transportation.”


164 posted on 12/19/2017 11:18:53 AM PST by ilovesarah2012
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To: fireman15
This entire situation is more complicated than I have made it sound. It never really was about saving 70 people 4 minutes 5 times a day. That is just a lie they have repeatedly told the public.

The Indianapolis taxpayers (and others) will soon be getting a RedLine.

Same type of boondoggle in the offing.

https://www.google.com/search?q=Indianapolis+RedLine&ie=&oe=

191 posted on 12/19/2017 5:51:11 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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