Today, consultants manage nearly every aspect of California's high speed rail project: 🚧 day-to-day construction work 💵 negotiations to buy land ⛰️ assessments of geological conditions 🤝attending community meetings 🚄 overseeing other consultants
WSP has stayed on the job for about a quarter of a century. It was given a new $700-million contract in 2015, despite warning signs that the project was headed for major cost overruns and had encountered serious delays.
“Candidly, we have some difficulty bringing people in when it is unclear what the future of the project is,” he said. “That’s a real challenge we have to deal with.” The counterargument made by consultants is that those numbers do not reflect differences in efficiency or quality of work.of the project in November, citing the role of consultants 81 times. Consultants, the audit said, “may not always have the state’s best interests as their primary motivation.”
A state audit found"significant problems" in sample contracts with consultants on the high-speed rail project, seen above south of downtown Fresno. In Brownstone’s opinion, the rail authority didn’t question the calculations because high ridership estimates supported its revenue projections.Cambridge Systematics declined to comment.
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