If it didnt have strings on that otherwise from the storage standpoint well talk about the thing thats looming we are the only significant operators for a while we are under conceptual obligations with respect to that so you know weve got a big unknown ahead of us when we talk about what it takes to operate this well workout would someone coming in and doing overall and representing things but weve done a lot we a lot of times said okay. Lets get that over to the tjpa but it is going to be an issue we really have to think that out of the box it has been brought up a couple of times i dont know how formally but people mentions can web core say look weve got enough confidence well give you a cap has that been talked about. Yeah. So we have an absolute to shoot for. Director nuru bought up gooetsdz maximum price theyll have a response to us steve if you could address that by the september board meekly. Thats been discussed and were looking at that. Good and relatingly we have a conspiracy
Construction total of one billion dollars plus virus a smaller budget for the soft costs the budget has 575 million and the revised is lower and for the contingency and reserve it as 61 . Million plus the reserve is less for and that shows you a delta of 499 million as i shared with you last month the remainder possible mitigation measure moving forward without impacting the construction of Transit Center or the minimal operation is the bus storage facilitated the budget that was presented today has 19. 4 million for the bus storage and for the funding if he were to mitigate the storage for the bus storage mitigation is drops to 4 hundred plus Million Dollars and we would fund part of that cost from the sale of what is left 460 million plus those are the Funding Sources are landfills, fuming grants and the melrose and sponsoring of changes the rfp we expect to get that in october and any money will reduce our need for the other areas. The next step is basically, the order packages weve
Expressway closed. Now that is actually preventing any access to the schuylkill expressway westbound. The eastbound side is doing just fine. You can see the road closed signs here so no access to the westbound schuylkill. Take girard to the schuylkill expressway just for right now and they also have local detour signs posted throughout the area. We are still dealing with 11 minute drive him heading westbound from the vine street expressway toward the blue route and eastbound side of the schuylkill expressway from the blue route up to the vine 12 minutes there. No problems on 95. 15 minute trip there from the schuylkill up to the vine street expressway. Mass transit no problems or delays so far. Indicted. Longtime congressman chalk a fa talk of philadelphia is accused of bribing and stealing money intended for charity and dates back to his failed race for mayor in philadelphia in 2007. The indictment alleges his misuse of congressional influence and misspending of taxpayer money and cha
The situation in florida and the gulf coast, and some years ago in connecticut and other parts of this country face a Natural Disaster almost as devastating as an attack would be by a foreign power. Analogous, different, but this category four Hurricane Maria caused consequences as devastating and destructive as any that man could do. It is a Natural Disaster. Not man made, but it is turning into a man made disaster. The response so far from our government has been underwhelming. In fact, it has been inadequate and anemic. It has been shamefully slow and undersized, and should be vastly upgraded and increased. Just moments ago, i learned that Lieutenant General buchanan has been appointed to head the military efforts in puerto rico. That appointment followed a call just an hour or so ago with all of the representatives, including fema, the department of defense, other federal agencies and the red cross where i urged that our United States military be mobilized, much as we would in resp
The meeting will come to order. Since we to have members here that want to be recognized and introduced to everyone, and i happen to be one of those, i think we might go ahead before Opening Statements and do that before we lose someone. If we already know a Lieutenant General todd semonite, youre a regular here pim recognize at this time senator carden to recognize pete ran, introduce pete mr. Chairman, thank you very much. A pleasure to have the secretary here before our committee. Thats secretary of the of transportation in maryland but as i was telling the chairman, this is the third state hes been secretary of transportation. Hes directed the Missouri Department of transportation and the new mexico state highway department. He just cant hold onto a job. Were proud of the work he does in maryland. We have a pretty challenging organization in maryland where the secretary of transportations responsible for all modes of transportation and coordinating all modes of transportation. Mr.