http://www.thetransportpolitic.com/2009/04/30/illinois-shuts-down-transit-project-funding/ Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:53:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.thetransportpolitic.com/2009/04/30/illinois-shuts-down-transit-project-funding/#comment-1119 Stewart Clamen Thu, 30 Apr 2009 21:13:22 +0000 http://thetransportpolitic.com/?p=2100#comment-1119 I wonder what the IOC's reaction will be. I wonder what the IOC’s reaction will be.

]]> http://www.thetransportpolitic.com/2009/04/30/illinois-shuts-down-transit-project-funding/#comment-1117 Adam Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:58:06 +0000 http://thetransportpolitic.com/?p=2100#comment-1117 Well after reading the article, I think you may go a tad overboard on your prognostication. The last thing Quinn wants is to be tarred as a Blago clone and it looks like the Chicago Democrats in the Assembly are all too ready to use that cudgel against him if he delays this too long. Maybe Quinn is using it as a bargaining chip to get his budget passed with the income tax increase. Sort of a shot across the bow, "Hey if you guys don't pass my budget, stuff like this is going to happen a lot more often". The spokeswoman said the "intention" is to have the projects going this construction season. So I think extreme vigilence is called for here rather than despair. Give him 2 weeks and we'll see what's happened. Well after reading the article, I think you may go a tad overboard on your prognostication. The last thing Quinn wants is to be tarred as a Blago clone and it looks like the Chicago Democrats in the Assembly are all too ready to use that cudgel against him if he delays this too long. Maybe Quinn is using it as a bargaining chip to get his budget passed with the income tax increase. Sort of a shot across the bow, “Hey if you guys don’t pass my budget, stuff like this is going to happen a lot more often”. The spokeswoman said the “intention” is to have the projects going this construction season. So I think extreme vigilence is called for here rather than despair. Give him 2 weeks and we’ll see what’s happened.

]]> http://www.thetransportpolitic.com/2009/04/30/illinois-shuts-down-transit-project-funding/#comment-1118 Adam Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:52:53 +0000 http://thetransportpolitic.com/?p=2100#comment-1118 Time for (Lisa) Madigan for governor? Time for (Lisa) Madigan for governor?

]]> http://www.thetransportpolitic.com/2009/04/30/illinois-shuts-down-transit-project-funding/#comment-1116 skoolmaster Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:26:11 +0000 http://thetransportpolitic.com/?p=2100#comment-1116 DAMN. And I was about to vote for him, too. DAMN. And I was about to vote for him, too.

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