| According to former WMATA board member Robert J. Smith, Maryland Governor Ehrlich has been “has been stringing [the Purple Line] out for all it’s worth” in a “prolonged attempt to obfuscate, alter, study and delay the project” to hide the fact that “without a tax increase, the project is underfunded” because “all money available is going to the intercounty connector and, indeed, even future federal money has been bonded for that project” to the extent that “the ICC commitment has left the state without capital for [other] projects well beyond the Ehrlich administration, even if it has a second term”.
Or that is to say, Ehrlich has no intention of building the Purple Line because the ICC is eating up all the state’s available transportation dollars, and will continue to do so for years to come. Exactly as BeyondDC predicted. Thanks a million, Bobby Haircut. We missed this story originally, but caught it thanks to our good friends at Just Up The Pike and DCist. |
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July 17th, 2006 | Permalink
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