Post by Logan on May 8, 2016 3:18:08 GMT -6
Even after four contracts related to the long-awaited Green Line extension project were approved at a price more than 44 percent over budget, the state’s top transportation officials didn’t appear worried.
Instead, in the fall of 2014, Beverly Scott, general manager of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, and her deputies were rushing to complete an application for a federal grant that would fund half of the $2 billion project.
“We are hoping it will happen before the Governor’s term ends,” Scott wrote in a November 2014 e-mail. “Everything in and under review.”
In January 2015, her wish came true. Decades after the project to extend the light rail line into Medford and Somerville was first proposed, Governor Deval Patrick stood alongside Congressman Michael Capuano, US Senator Elizabeth Warren, and other officials to celebrate winning a federal grant that would bring the state nearly $1 billion.
Read more: www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/05/07/rush-get-going-officials-ignored-looming-trouble-with-green-line-extension/Ep7QNHJZMxGZ5pKvayVO6O/story.html
Instead, in the fall of 2014, Beverly Scott, general manager of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, and her deputies were rushing to complete an application for a federal grant that would fund half of the $2 billion project.
“We are hoping it will happen before the Governor’s term ends,” Scott wrote in a November 2014 e-mail. “Everything in and under review.”
In January 2015, her wish came true. Decades after the project to extend the light rail line into Medford and Somerville was first proposed, Governor Deval Patrick stood alongside Congressman Michael Capuano, US Senator Elizabeth Warren, and other officials to celebrate winning a federal grant that would bring the state nearly $1 billion.
Read more: www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/05/07/rush-get-going-officials-ignored-looming-trouble-with-green-line-extension/Ep7QNHJZMxGZ5pKvayVO6O/story.html