Those of us that either grew up or had our children grow up with Thomas the Tank Engine, are familiar with the stern rail master who chides the personified trains when their goofiness caused some catastrophe on the rail lines.
"You have caused CONFUSION AND DELAY!" Sir Topham Hatt would exclaim.
The child-like train would shed a tear and slink off, admonished and ashamed.
In the budget update to its board of directors, agency staff announced it is preparing for a future where funding is held back, endangering tens of thousands of jobs and causing more delays and cost overruns to the project.
The next meeting of the Board of Directors will be held on September 23. One can't help but wonder if the legislature would be so cavalier with tens of thousands of jobs if the Board's new budget would be decided ten days earlier...the day before the Governor's recall election.
What happened in West Portal was entirely predictable and preventable. The city must now close Ulloa to through traffic and make sure it can never happen again
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