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The end! The end is nigh!!
2
Tunel? Really?
3
Meaningless.

No funding.

No public vote.

And no popular support.
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Will @ 3: Meaningless, huh? I think you will find that a court will disagee with you. It will see advisory votes and popular support as meaningless, but a signed contract as definitively meaningful.
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@3 Will in Seattle

I didnt get a "Billionaires Tunnel!!" out of you. Come on, if your going to parrot useless talking points, you need to be consistent.

Public vote is a waste of time because it will be a yes/no vote. Do you see people taking signatures offering 3 options? Nope. Just yes/no. So people will vote no, because of the costs, then we'll wait another year to vote on what option to go with .... which might not pass! Why? Because less expensive options will still cost billions! And while all this is going on, the state takes the current viaduct down (just like they threatened to do) in 2012, then paves a two lane road in its shadow and Seattle buckles under the pressure of moving all those cars downtown.
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All your failures is belong to Deep Bore Tunnel.
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But has the funding package been in fact finalized? If so, it would be news to me; last I heard SDOT was at least $1B short.

So, how exactly do you pay for a multi-billion dollar construction project when you don't have all the funding locked down solid?
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A couple months ago that Dragados was also part of the JV that got a $780M contract to do the longest of the five Crossrail deep-bore tunnels under London too, a little over five miles long out of the fifteen miles of tunnels under contract there.
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This is all so stupid -- the state doesn't have the cash to pay for it. What are we going to do, tell the people a few months in, "Hey guys, can you float us to FQ1 in 2012?"
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It's all about the unfunded budget and the ever decreasing state gas tax revenues.

Heck, they can't even afford the POWER to run the fans and pumps during operation!
12

You idiots will now be taxed to fund Government pensions for the next four decades in the name of "cost overruns".

13
Not gonna happen, sorry. They'll sign the contract, the project will fail and the protracted fight between STP and the state will sap the state of millions over the next 10 years.
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How can the state sign a $1.9 billion contract before the EIS is complete? This is against both federal and state law. The whole point of the EIS is to review options BEFORE making decisions.

This is a deliberate flouting of the law. Who will sue?
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@14 technically, we have at least two more EIS hearings, not counting the mandatory Federal EIS for the salmon and other listed Elliot Bay fish and the particulate and carbon emissions.

Federal law trumps State law.

Always has.

Always will.
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@14, 15 you guys should pool your resources, blow this story wide open, bring some justice.
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@16 I'm just going to laugh when the inevitable lawsuits bury the tunnel. You can make a laundry list of people and groups with standing I'd bet.
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I expect people with signs similar to old 1930's depression era signs proclaiming "End of the World" and other "I told you so" signs around the construction area and government offices.
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Is there a protest planned? I'll go if there is.

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