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Not quite, just stating the facts. That's the way it went. In 2008, nobody cared that it was going to cost hundreds of millions more to speed up the project and redesign the whole thing--the pols all said just do it and get it done. Now after the fact everyone's crying about all the money that was spent and the new pols are pointing fingers to make it work to their advantage. It's so typical and the public seems clueless and sits there looking shocked and swooning with the backs of their hands to their foreheads when this sort of thing happens over and over again.
But yet that has nothing to do with the NJT price hikes and service cuts. That was all unions and Corzine.
Now you are really beginning to show your stupidity on the issue.
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NEW YORK — January 31, 2012 - 11:30pm The agency building the new World Trade Center says a design flaw could add millions of dollars to the cost of the complex's signature tower
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Durst originally sought what would have been, in essence, a construction management fee of $35 million for what it envisioned as five years of work. The authority was unwilling to pay that amount. Instead, a deal was negotiated under which Durst would receive a $15 million fee and be entitled to a percentage of any “base building changes that result in net economic benefit to the project” — cost savings, in other words — that Durst had initiated and recommended.
In August 2010, the Port Authority board authorized incentives to Durst of 75 percent of any savings it realized up to $12 million, and 50 percent of any savings it realized beyond $12 million. Subsequent negotiations changed the benefit to Durst, with a formula running from 75 percent of savings up to $24 million, stepping down to 50 percent, 25 percent and 15 percent as the savings increased.
After a year in which the design revisions have come out publicly in dribs and drabs, Mr. Durst and his senior project manager, Tony Tarazi, sat down with a reporter last week to discuss the changes comprehensively.
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The chief problem, Mr. Tarazi said, was that the Chinese fabricator chosen for the job, Sanxin Glass, was unable to mill the saw-tooth pattern in sheets of tempered glass without deforming the panels beyond the tolerances needed for proper installation. Mr. Foye called this a “design failure.” Christopher O. Ward, the executive director of the authority when the decision was made to abandon prismatic glass, called it “a good design that couldn’t be fabricated.”
Engineers, designers and the administration of the PA. Unions? Doubt those Chinese workers are union. Or the designers that keep changing the plans.
I wasn't talking about the World Trade Center. I was talking about NJT
If NJT received more subsides like other agencies in the US , prices would be lower , also if they were given the $$$ requested for Track , Bridge and signal upgrades to reduce operating costs , tickets would be lower. Thats not the case because here in the Northeast , despite having the density of Europe our Transportation policies are all over the place and its damaging our economy. NJT / NJDOT are backlogged by 25 Billion in projects , the whole Northeast is backlogged by 420 Billion in Projects. Although 120 Billion should be done by 2020....
This is why you have fare cuts and service hikes..
Christie last week said his administration would withhold nearly $33 million in NJ Transit subsidies. He called the agency a "political patronage pit" and said it could cut costs before raising fares. (coming from a guy who just dumped three or four more into high paying NA jobs)
During the meeting, Reilly said, Weinstein detailed Gov. Chris Christie’s "aggressive" cost-saving plan for NJ Transit.
"The plan comprises of fare hikes of between 20%-30%, and service reductions that are currently being worked on," Reilly wrote. "The service reductions could force the carrier to furlough some of its employees. Executive Director Weinstein stated that specific details will be forthcoming within the next two weeks."
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