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Thanks for this in-depth look into one of these hyper-expensive US projects that mystified me!

Can you perhaps tell me what made New Jersey's River LINE so incredibly expensive? (In that case, it's not 40% but at least 80% of the budget which is totally unjustified and looks for an explanation.)

*Traitor*, n.
A benighted individual who perceives an illusory distinction between serving his nation and abetting the criminals who govern it.

by DoDo on Sun May 25th, 2008 at 02:51:58 AM EST
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Glad to be of assistance.  It is a subject that has long vexed me and which I take very personally. As a contractor and consultant I have worked on over half of the 650+ major instructional facilities in LAUSD. Alas, I only briefly worked for one of the alphabet soup agencies, although I earned enough in four months to see me through a four month convalescence from major surgery.  I continue to work for individual engineering offices about four months a year, some of it from my home in Arkansas, but at (to them) more reasonable hourly rates.

If sanity be culturally normative, then by the norms of this culture I claim insanity.
by ARGeezer (argeezer a in a circle yahoo dot com) on Sun May 25th, 2008 at 11:35:14 AM EST
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Someone else will have to elucidate the problems in New Jersey.  Tony Soprano?

If sanity be culturally normative, then by the norms of this culture I claim insanity.
by ARGeezer (argeezer a in a circle yahoo dot com) on Sun May 25th, 2008 at 11:38:02 AM EST
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