BIG DIG PART DEUX, Watch Out For that TRAIN!

Lawmakers blasted the state Department of Transportation and Gov. M. Jodi Rell’s budget chief.

Members of the Finance and Transportation Committees, meeting in a joint session to review projected cost overruns in the 10-year, $1.17 billion project, realized there might not be adequate maintenance facilities by the time delivery starts late next year on 300 new Kawasaki M-8 rail cars.

Robert L. Genuario, secretary of the Office of Policy and Management, apologized for not keeping the General Assembly apprised of cost hikes that resulted primarily from higher-than-anticipated inflation that has reached a startling 10 percent annually.

Read more here, looks like the Rell administration was hiding the cost over-runs except for the fact that she needed the Democratic supermajority’s power of the purse.

http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/localnews/ci_8941187

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xXQFnIEf_Q

Does she understand the three branches of government? 

As Rep. Jim Shapiro, D-Stamford said, the more than 10 years of construction is unacceptable. “We built the Panama Canal in that time.”