That's weird, because the Hogan administration put out a bunch of press releases about the projects they redistributed the money to, and those projects were then built. Maybe the contractors didn't get paid? |
That 219 "realignment" has to be one of the biggest waste of money spent in the history of the state. Totally overengineered, totally unnecessary. |
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This. Same reason I finally stopped voting for Connie Morella when she did a great job and was one of my mom’s best friends. It was a vote for Speaker Newt and I wasn’t going to do it again. |
Hogan removed the Red Line from the CTP during the planning stage. There was never an appropriation, the state never had the money to fund it and no federal funds were committed. |
Unlike a $100 million dollar metro elevator at Medical Center? |
One of these things was paid for by MD taxpayers, the other by WMATA bonds which, unless you are a WMATA bondholder, you as a taxpayer, didn't pay for it. |
No one apparently told you how WMATA bonds are funded. LOL. |
Here is a list of the road projects that Hogan redistributed money for the Baltimore Red Line to, after he killed the Baltimore Red Line: https://content.govdelivery.com/attachments/MDGOV/2015/06/25/file_attachments/402301/Project%2BFact%2BSheets%2B-%2B%2524845%2BNew%2Band%2B%2524625%2BPreserved%2B6.25.2015.pdf |
No money was “redistributed” because no money was ever appropriated for Red Line construction. Furthermore, this amount was only a fraction of the overall Red Like cost. Lastly, did you miss the part about Hogan specifically campaigning on roads? Why should it surprise you that the first thing he prioritizes is roads? You seem both naive and anti-democratic. |
"The total of nearly $2 billion in roads spending will be financed in part from savings from not building the Red Line and from lower costs for the Purple Line, according to Erin Henson, a spokeswoman for the Maryland Department of Transportation." https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/2015/06/25/a255fe8c-1b4d-11e5-93b7-5eddc056ad8a_story.html |
Show me the appropriation for Red Line that was “redistributed”. Also, the Red Line would have cost far more than $2 billion. |
You're saying that the spokeswoman for the Maryland Department of Transportation, under Hogan, provided incorrect information about spending by the Maryland Department of Transportation. |
The only way that you could be so upset about a highway interchange in the middle of MD is if you are that nutter Ben Ross. You should probably get a life because you lost relevance a long time ago. |
Is that you Ben? |