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    Posted: 08 Jun 2006 at 3:31pm
Wow. Consultants are intentionally over-estimating revenue projections for toll road projects across the country. And who picks up the tab when the revenue isn't generated? Taxpayers.

I attended the 95 HOT meetings, and I can tell you that they really have no way of knowing how much revenue will be generated. This in an environment ripe for corruption as the article documents.


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Hey, Dog Bites Man, what a surprise. Tollers shop around the "consultants" until they get revenue projections that fit their needs.

Unfortunately for us, the level of traffic on 95/395 is so huge that their projections won't need to be inflated to secure bonds for our Tool Road.

In fact, the estimates will be low, because Fluor/Transurban cannot publish a study with the true eventual rates of >$30 one way from F'burg.

If those projected rates from the MWCOG ever get in a front page article in the Post, the Limo Lanes argument is back in play.

Bob, we all appreciate you keeping an eye on that bubbling HOT pot for us!
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