You may have heard Authority Chairman Dan Richard and CEO Jeff Morales in the media lately talking about transparency. We sent legislators new information about how the Authority is so concerned about the public perception of the project that it is willing to compromise the state’s ability to oversee the many consultants working to design the rail line. […]
Archive | November, 2015
Backup documents for the 2014 Biz Plan Capital Cost: Do they exist?
Yesterday, we sent a request to the CHSRA board for back up cost documents for the published 2014 Business Plan capital cost estimate. Last summer, we were told they did not exist. Cost estimates for large transportation infrastructure projects are produced in a standard way. The engineers use a standard list of categories (track, utilities […]