Republican Mathematician Wrote:
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> Tysons Engineer Wrote:
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> >
> > The concept has benefits;
> >
> > -The new lanes were built for essentially
> nothing
> > where as in the past it would have drawn upon a
> > limited source of transportation funding,
> thereby
> > reducing the availability of funds for other
> > projects.
>
>
> "built for essentially nothing" -- yep. They found
> a magical accounting practice that allowed them to
> build a major road without spending a dime.
>
> I love doublespeak or newspeak. It's so cute.
>
>
> >
> > -The new lanes required extensive new
> > infrastructure in the connecting communities
> that
> > weren’t part of the Fluor Private-Public
> > partnership including local road widenings to
> > support the new anticipated traffic as well as
> > future upgrades that will be necessary.
>
>
> So how was it built for essentially nothing,
> again?
>
>
> Seems to me it benefits politically influential
> people. Fluor Transurban is a consortium of
> Transurban, an Australian toll operator, and
> Fluor, whose board consists of the Chairman of
> California JP Morgan, Peter Barker, and Alan
> Bennett, a director of Halliburton.
>
>
http://www.fluor.com/about_fluor/leadership/board_
> of_directors/Pages/default.aspx
>
> Isn't it funny that both the silver line and the
> hot lanes were constructed by people with
> connections to the Bush administration?? No-bid
> contracts are awesome, if you own the people in
> positions to grant them.
To be fair there are only about a half dozen companies with the capabilities to construction multi-billion dollar infrastructure. Fluor, Foster Wheeler, and Halliburton are really the only 3 in the game of this order.