He Said There Was No Money?
A draft of Chicago's plans for the city's central area through 2020 calls for $15.5 billion in public works, mostly for transportation improvements, and asserts the projects are attainable with or without the 2016 Olympics.
The projects include a West Loop transit hub beneath Clinton Street with an estimated price tag of almost $6 billion. The hub would connect Metra and CTA rail and bus lines with a proposed Carroll Street rail line, itself a $260 million item, near the north bank of the Chicago River.
Other big-ticket items include $1.5 billion for CTA express train service to the airports and a $500 million for a landscaped roof over the Kennedy Expy. from Monroe to Washington around which new office buildings could be added. A $377 million plan foresees moving part of Lake Shore Drive east from Navy Pier to the Oak Street curve, creating space for bike and pedestrian paths.
No wonder the Sun Times is joining the Tribune in bankruptcy.
Labels: money questions
posted by SCC at 12:02 AM
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Maybe Fhuck Goudie could set up another revealing I-REPORT about this!!! I have NO idea how our clueless leader gets away with this stuff???
Why don't we investigate this little prick! We have the best talent in the world right here on the job! I am sure a couple of you Det's could do a hell of a job by just looking in old newspapers to get a start and the freedom of information law could help! But don't forget the slime at the pension board Hauser and the other thief! Turn all evidence over to the Feds!!!!!
A funny side-note...that plan that was just announced is about 10 years old. I worked for CDOT about 6 years ago, and that plan had passed over my desk, and at that point it had been a few years old. The same pictures, the same price tag...everything.
I'm sure the FOP march and murder rate and pot hole/KFC issue and all of Chicago's glorious issues had nothing to do with the transportation plan being released in nearly it's original form nearly 10 years after it was created...right before the IOC visit.
Shortshanks isn't that desperate...is he???
Hey chuck
I Team needs to investigate all of the rusty, polluting, and cancer causing gas tanks left underground in most of the police stations city wide.
or is your hypocritical head too far up the mayor's ass?
We've been hearing about these express trains for years now. Where exactly will the "express" tracks go? Maybe remove a lane on the Kennedy???
Hey Chuck Goudie,
Notice how ever command spot, capt spot filled, yet no blue shirts hired? They are in the budget. Why do we need people getting a city pension and they becoming civilians @ city, county, state, fed. budget level? If there is no money, there is no money for double salaries, i,e., Grau, Starks, Mauer, Gross. By the way, check Better Gov.com look at all Daley's relatives; his son-in-law and family of Conroy, Maggie's family, Corbett, Keating, Huels, Duff, and other Irish connects.
Ah! but read the fine print!
It's TIF money. TIF money is different from other money! It's magic - it only buys things the Mayor wants!
And it doesn't cost anyone anything!
Magic!
If there's no money for a decent police raise, how can there be money for the Olympics? None of the other Cities in Contention are crying broke.
"The projects include a West Loop transit hub beneath Clinton Street with an estimated price tag of almost $6 billion."
Transit hub for people to go...where? To jobs that aren't there? To high-end shopping on North Michigan when they have no money?
"Other big-ticket items include $1.5 billion for CTA express train service to the airports..."
Poor people don't fly much. They worry over things like shoelaces and toothpaste.
"...and a $500 million for a landscaped roof over the Kennedy Expy. from Monroe to Washington around which new office buildings could be added...."
...to add to the already spectacular vacancy rate of downtown commercial space. Steven Good didn't shoot himself for no reason.
"A $377 million plan foresees moving part of Lake Shore Drive east from Navy Pier to the Oak Street curve, creating space for bike and pedestrian paths..."
Is there going to be a Federal program to pay bicyclists and pedestrians a "living wage" to populate the space in order to create the desired artist's-rendition atmosphere?
MAYOR DALEY IS CLINICALLY INSANE
the city is sooo broke, yet this morning, I come outside and see city workers putting up new lights to go with the street lights (I guess to light up the sidewalk??) ..now , I live by congress and western (11th dist. side) , and i appreciate the beautification project, but seriously, those lights are a complete waste of time and money.
$12 million for Buckingham foutain Did't the just redo it a few years ago? They also took out the backstops on the softball fields on the east side of Columbus. The broke state just pledged another $100 mil for the olympics. No money for raises. No money for shitty schools. No money to fix the roads except around Washington Pk. State Street cleaned by ex con's with a multi million dollar contract. Laid off city workers who used to clean the streets that were law abiding. Seems fair to you. Get out on the 2nd.
Moving the Drive east would actually be nice, that's the worst part on the lake front path for riding or running.
But I still want my raise!
Fcuk Goudie
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Mayor Daley said today he would support Gov. Quinn's call for a 50 percent increase in the state income tax, only if it's tied to property tax relief and only if the governor scraps a plan to withhold millions in income tax growth from cities."
He's hoping that he gets what he considers to be "The Shortshanks Fair Share" of the "Tax Booty".
Someone from the Daley family should insist that shortshanks get a Psychiatric evaluation. He's been acting even crazier than Blago. We'd all love to see a pic of Shortshanks wearing his aluminum foil helmet. It helps to keep the "Boys down the street" from monitoring his thoughts.
Shortshanks, cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo! No body is home in that mellon head of yours !!!!!!!!
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