{"id":4397,"date":"2008-04-29T11:32:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-29T11:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4397"},"modified":"2017-11-09T10:17:07","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T16:17:07","slug":"drop-removed-from-bucket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/29\/drop-removed-from-bucket\/","title":{"rendered":"Drop Removed From Bucket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kudos to the Metropolitan Mass Transit Boondoggle Association for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/news\/stories.nsf\/commutingtraffic\/story\/218C665303121FA986257439007609E7?OpenDocument\" target=\"_blank\">getting a bill reduced $95,000<\/a>:  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A consulting firm that worked on Metro\u2019s failed lawsuit against MetroLink designers has agreed to knock $94,617 off its final bill after the agency questioned some travel expenses and other charges.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Too bad the ill-conceived bucket was so big as to make this win negligible:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Metro, formally known as the Bi-State Development Agency, spent more than $21 million on its three-year legal battle against the original designers and construction managers of the Shrewsbury MetroLink line. But after a three-month trial, a St. Louis County jury ruled in favor of the defendants, who had counter-sued.<\/p>\n<p>Metro later reached a $6 million settlement with the contractors \u2014 bringing the agency\u2019s total trial cost to $27 million. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>With enough judicious budgeting like this, the whole thing will take an extra 30 minutes to go bankrupt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kudos to the Metropolitan Mass Transit Boondoggle Association for getting a bill reduced $95,000: A consulting firm that worked on Metro\u2019s failed lawsuit against MetroLink designers has agreed to knock $94,617 off its final bill after the agency questioned some travel expenses and other charges. Too bad the ill-conceived bucket was so big as to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17342,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4397\/revisions\/17342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}