DART President and CEO Nadine Lee told City Council members on Tuesday that the city has cost DART an estimated $50 million in delays related to the planned...
DART says it could keep more than $80 million due to delays and changes it believes Dallas has caused to its planned Silver Line rail line11:40 AM on Mar 1, 2023 CST
“In my experience as a professional engineer, I have never seen a project have to revisit so many issues in this stage of design,” Lee said during a city transportation and infrastructure committee meeting, which also featured several Dallas representatives of the DART board of directors. “To sit here and say to me that we’re going to take $36 million that we never told you we were going to take, just for you to acquiesce and feel good about getting money that you’ve already sent us -- I think is unfair,” Broadnax said. “I do not and will not recommend that we sign an agreement that is inflexible and does not take into consideration where we are today.”
“It’s outrageous to think that DART would be the judge and jury of if we’ve had a delay or if something is appropriate,” she said.
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