By Michael Cabanatuan : SFGate – excerpt
Noisy, dusty, traffic-tangling construction is under way on the Central Subway, yet uncertainties and challenges continue to dog the $1.6 billion project.
Construction crews are building the staging area on Fourth Street beneath the Interstate 80 skyway, where two tunnel-boring machines will start the excavation of the 1.7-mile subway to Chinatown and debris will be hauled out.
But the Municipal Transportation Agency is still awaiting word on whether – and when – it will get a $942 million federal funding guarantee it’s been awaiting for months, and the House of Representatives’ transportation bill includes an amendment by Rep. Tom McClintock, R-Elk Grove (Sacramento County), that could take away future funding for the project…
Threatening to sue – But if digging starts before merchants are satisfied, some of them are threatening to sue…
Save Muni wants the transportation agency to stop work at least until federal funding is guaranteed.
“The MTA’s motivation is for public relations: to create a sense of inevitability to get funding,” said Howard Wong, a member of the group. “They’re moving ahead with this to fund their staff rather than protecting taxpayers.”…
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