CHEERS AND JEERS — June 4-5
BACKHANDED CHEERS...
to another $700 million in “savings” found on the Ohio River Bridges project.It’s amazing what a little pressure can do to politicians. The real cheer is to the no tolls groups which created the pressure which led to a bloated project being scaled back.In just a few short months, elected and project leaders have said the projected price tag on two new bridges and a redo of Spaghetti Junction in downtown Louisville has shrunk from $4.1 billion to $2.9 billion due to simply scaling back a project that was too big to begin with.
Here’s a good question — would the project have been downsized if the pressure would have never arrived?
—Editor Shea Van Hoy
New Albany is a state of mind … but whose? Since 2004, we’ve been observing the contemporary scene in this slowly awakening old river town. If it’s true that a pre-digital stopped clock is right twice a day, when will New Albany learn to tell time?
Sunday, June 05, 2011
"Would the (bridges) project have been downsized if the pressure would have never arrived? "
The ongoing silence emanating from the general direction of the furnished oligarch's bunker occupied by Ron Grooms, Steve Stemler and Ed Clere continues to be deafening. Conceding that the cuts are being made in the wrong place -- the East End bridge, which was the only one necessary in the first place -- it remains that after a constant barrage of assurances that the monolith was impregnable, the past six months' worth of whittling proves that proponents to be lying all along. See also: Press release: No2BridgeTolls Responds to Massive Bridge Plan Reduction.
I appreciate Shea's commentary but here's my question:
ReplyDeleteHow would any of this have played out if more area news organizations had been pressing said politicians for justification and details all along rather than simply publishing the lies repeatedly?
Jeff- Marcus Green w/CJ & Joe Arnold w/WHAS have been pressing hard questions. Problem is they're frequently not answered, which makes for boring news.
ReplyDeleteAs to the question posed by Roger...Yes, I believe it's always been the intent to downsize the project, and it will continue to be downsized until the Eastern connection is not even a component. And that's why I'm not celebrating, even if my No Tolls are. Check out the last video I put up on LouisvilleCourant.com.