{"id":53027,"date":"2015-04-28T06:00:18","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T11:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=53027"},"modified":"2015-04-27T23:29:32","modified_gmt":"2015-04-28T04:29:32","slug":"two-billion-ways-to-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=53027","title":{"rendered":"Two Billion Ways To Die"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In three years, the price estimate for the Southwest LRT, from downtown Minneapolis to Eden Prairie, has jumped from 1.5-ish billion to, as of yesterday, <a href=\"http:\/\/kstp.com\/news\/stories\/s3778723.shtml\">two billion dollars<\/a>. \u00a0 And in a move that smacks of &#8220;giving the DFL political cover&#8221; (or, if you feel really cynical, responding to the NIMBY responses of his Kenwood neighbors), Governor Dayton has started what looks like walking the project back:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dayton said in a statement released Monday that the rising costs to design and build the Southwest light rail &#8220;raises serious questions about the viability and affordability,&#8221; of the project.<\/p>\n<p>Dayton called on the Metropolitan Council, which he appointed, to review other options for providing public transit to the region.<\/p>\n<p>In the news conference Monday, Dayton said the project will not get additional money until costs are under control.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Prediction: \u00a0Governor Dayton and the DFL are going to use any potential cancellation as proof of their &#8220;fiscal responsibility&#8221;, as well as to inoculate the Met Council from further criticism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In three years, the price estimate for the Southwest LRT, from downtown Minneapolis to Eden Prairie, has jumped from 1.5-ish billion to, as of yesterday, two billion dollars. \u00a0 And in a move that smacks of &#8220;giving the DFL political cover&#8221; (or, if you feel really cynical, responding to the NIMBY responses of his Kenwood [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[321,104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-left","category-trains-and-automobiles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53027","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=53027"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53064,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53027\/revisions\/53064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}