{"id":80504,"date":"2022-01-04T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=80504"},"modified":"2022-01-03T19:50:48","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T01:50:48","slug":"a-kind-of-hush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=80504","title":{"rendered":"A Kind Of Hush"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Haven\u2019t heard much about the southwest light rail line, have we?<\/p><p>There\u2019s a reason for that. It\u2019s hosed. Hosed perhaps beyond reasonable repair.And nobo<a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanexperiment.org\/why-is-met-council-hiding-the-cost-and-completion-date-of-light-rail-line\/?fbclid=IwAR0gxYN2yykI9R_pp-qOiLnexKi9Q5iqevv_WGXiPpVmQdaUMeDl4CDc_TI\">dy in officialdom wants to talk about it \u2013 at<\/a> least, not before the midterms:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The $2 billion Southwest Light Rail Transit Line the most expensive public works project ever undertaken in Minnesota. Besides that, it also holds the potential to be the state\u2019s biggest boondoggle, a potential political scandal in the making in the midst of the 2022 election.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox9.com\/news\/met-council-wont-know-southwest-light-rail-cost-timeline-until-sometime-in-2022\">Fox 9 News<\/a> reports the Met Council, the agency overseeing the project, has essentially clammed up, refusing to provide key construction updates on cost and completion date.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>They don\u2019t even have any idea when they will have any idea how bad it\u2019s going to be:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p> An updated timeline and cost projection, once expected towards the end of 2021, will now come \u201csometime in 2022,\u201d Trevor Roy, a project spokesman, told FOX 9. Met Council officials have long acknowledged that the rail line will exceed its original $2 billion budget and estimated 2023 opening. They are now changing tactics to renegotiate the project schedule after criticism from an outside evaluator.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Call me a cynic, but I think there\u2019s a reason this story is coming out in January of an election year; so the media can say \u201cwe covered it! We\u2019re not actually PR water carriers for the DFL!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haven\u2019t heard much about the southwest light rail line, have we? There\u2019s a reason for that. It\u2019s hosed. Hosed perhaps beyond reasonable repair.And nobody in officialdom wants to talk about it \u2013 at least, not before the midterms: The $2 billion Southwest Light Rail Transit Line the most expensive public works project ever undertaken in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[320,104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mndfl","category-trains-and-automobiles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80504","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=80504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80505,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80504\/revisions\/80505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}