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City Don't Blow This, Mike
Posted by Dominic Holden on Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 2:47 PM
Should Seattle pay cost overruns for the deep-bore tunnel downtown? Mayor Mike McGinn says we shouldn't. But what's he going to do to protect Seattle from picking up the tab?
"The legislature has made it clear they want the city to pay for cost overruns," McGinn says. He has repeatedly vowed to erase that liability before we pass "the point of no return," the point at which Seattle is committed to the tunnel and the law putting Seattle on the hook for cost overruns remains in place.
- Kyle Johnson
But McGinn has a problem. "I don't know exactly where the point of no return is right now," he says. Moreover, McGinn doesn't seem to have a plan to identify this point of no return or pull the emergency brake before we careen past it.
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