{"id":1401,"date":"2007-10-05T05:37:39","date_gmt":"2007-10-05T10:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1401"},"modified":"2007-10-05T05:37:39","modified_gmt":"2007-10-05T10:37:39","slug":"whats-the-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1401","title":{"rendered":"What’s The Difference…"},"content":{"rendered":"

…between the 35W River Bridge and the Wakota Bridge?<\/p>\n

Besides the whole falling over thing, I mean?<\/p>\n

There’s actual evidence<\/a> that MNDOT screwed up.<\/p>\n

Khani Sahebjam, who heads the Minnesota Department of Transportation’s metro district, told legislators at a fact-finding hearing that the agency has set aside $50 million for the Interstate 494 bridge job. But he said there’s no assurance that contractors will submit bids anywhere close to that amount when the job is re-bid in January.<\/p>\n

“We’ll cross that bridge when we get there,” Sahebjam said.<\/p>\n

“That’s what I’m afraid of,” said Rep. Joe Atkins, DFL-South St. Paul, who chaired the hearing. “I don’t think there’s going to be a bridge to cross.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Goes to show you what trusting government will get you.<\/p>\n

But before we go storming the MNDOT building with pitchforks and torches and demanding Carol Molnau’s head (not that it might not conceivably be called for), let’s remember – MNDOT was always <\/em>Minnesota’s short-bus agency.\u00a0 They never <\/em>had a good reputation, no matter who was governor. It’s something someone’s gotta fix, and it might as well be Pawlenty.<\/p>\n

But watch the nattering class try to forget MNDOT’s catalogue of screwups before 2000…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…between the 35W River Bridge and the Wakota Bridge? Besides the whole falling over thing, I mean? There’s actual evidence that MNDOT screwed up. Khani Sahebjam, who heads the Minnesota Department of Transportation’s metro district, told legislators at a fact-finding hearing that the agency has set aside $50 million for the Interstate 494 bridge job. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}