BART has already spent $64 million on the controversial Oakland Airport connector.
But Robert Raburn, a member of the BART Board of Directors, thinks he can derail the roughly $500 million project, which he’s nicknamed the “gold-plated” connector, before any more money is spent.Bay Citizen
The whole thing was corruption from beginning to its current state. Except:
Is the Oakland Airport Connector "too costly to stop," as Matier & Ross wrote at the Chronicle? BART director Robert Raburn, who was elected in part on an anti-OAC campaign in the very same district hosting the OAC, at least made an inquiry and tried to do something to stop it -- but then immediately retreated upon discovering $95 million had already been spent, and that an estimated $30-150 million more would have to be spent to pay off contractors if the project were halted. Transbay Blog
The two elected proponents of the mess were voted out of office, now no one wants the thing. Looks like a train wreck on the horizon.
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