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Originally Posted by viewguysf
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Originally Posted by brantw
NOOOOOO!!!
"The San Francisco County Transportation Authority Commission, on which serve the 11 members of the Board of Supervisors, voted 7 to 3 to not release the $6.8 million in funding to pay for design work of the second phase of the Transbay Transit Center."
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Fiscal prudence has to come first, especially until it's becomes more clear if they bear any responsibility for the Millennium Tower debacle.
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Well, it's more a liability issue: the city doesn't want to be on the hook for any costs incurred to fix issues with the Millennium Tower. They're withholding funding (something they can do after agreeing to a loan for the terminal) until investigations are done to satisfy the city that future work won't make things worse.
Not really a big deal.
Also, for what it's worth, the Millennium Tower group's argument doesn't seem like a sound one, legally. Particularly, if work on Transbay was conducted as would be expected. The onus seems on the former to explain why they constructed the tower's foundations the way they did - and why the city allowed them to.