Whoa...$12B at the airport? Where does that come from? The current estimate
is $2.7B by 2010.
Dick Saunders
Diamond Lake
> If you folks really are concerned about excessive spending on
>transportation mega projects, take a look at the 12 billion or so
>they're spending on our airport!
>
> peace,
> dyna
>
>>Annie, I kind of get the feeling that you aren't interested
>>in what people in the boonies have to say about Minneapolis
>>politics - your line "We can't wait to hear about politics
>>out in St.
>>Michael as they apply to Minneapolis issues. :-)" seems to
>>say it all! I hope I am misreading your intent.
>>
>>However, LRT is a statewide issue, not just a Minneapolis
>>issue. And many of us want a multi-modal transportation
>>system, we just believe that the financial investment stakes
>>are higher than we have been led to believe. And the
>>problem with the design on this bridge should not be blamed
>>on a design-build process. Even though I think that process
>>is dangerous for this project and others of this size, this
>>was a miss by those who manage the project. The guidelines
>>were clear and it was the Met Council's responsibility to
>>meet the city's requirements. And to rationalize more
>>spending from city tax dollars because "it was many people's
>>fault" is beaucracy at it's worst. Minneapolis can't even
>>pick up it's garbage or manage many basic services, yet it
>>can find dollars to fix a Met Council problem. I guess some
>>of us in the boonies just don't get it.
>>
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
>>Annie Young
>>Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 3:08 PM
>>To: Russell W Peterson; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>Subject: RE: [Mpls] re: Lake St lrt bridge
>>
>>
>>Welcome back Russell. We can't wait to hear about politics
>>out in St.
>>Michael as they apply to Minneapolis issues. :-)
>>Actually, I think the City Council did stickup for the
>>neighbors. As
>>Sheila states there were significant errors made by several
>>players on this
>>deal. And we have all learned lesons by this mistake.
>>However, the City Council and especially councilmember
>>Thurber did stand up
>>for the citizens because if they hadn't "coughed up" the
>>money we would be
>>getting the wall because there were also incredible
>>deadlines we were up
>>against. I think the biggest problem is this whole theory
>>about design and
>>build. With the kinds of bidding processes and regulations
>>about who can
>>talk to who and what kinds of changes can and cannot be made
>>we are very
>>lucky we got to make the change.
>>Ted Mondale also gets a hand in this - we stormed several of
>>the Met
>>Council meetings where there normally is not testimony or
>>comments from the
>>public and he did let us speak to the problems this would be
>>created for
>>the neighborhood.
>>So when throwing stones we must be careful who they hit and
>>this time you
>>have missed the target. They did fight for us. And from my
>>couch in
>>Phillips this is a very rare treat and deserves a toast to
>>the CC.
>>Although Barrett Lane will have to sit in the other room at
>>the celebration
>>party - but he is accustomed to that.
>>For now,
>>Annie
>>
>>
>>
>>
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