--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "oakdorf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
The Freeholders are all talk when it comes to AP. Give the
$10,000,000 to the City and they can do it ,thier way.
> ASBURY PARK People call it a white elephant, underused, sterile
> one of the all-time pork barrel projects.......
> ...to talk about a new county Planning Board study funded with an
> $80,000 federal grant...Cost estimates for a range of improvements
> over 10 years including lighting, a new parking garage, a new
> walkway above the tracks, and landscaping were from $5 million to
> $10 million, planning consultants said.....said Kenneth Lin,
project
> manager from STV, the transportation planning consultants who
> received $50,000 to do the study..
> Now, there is only an underground tunnel that can be isolated and
> scary. A typical overpass with an elevator runs $2 million to $3
> million, Lin said.
>
> Let's talk pork:
>
> 1. $80,000 to figure out a problem that was known before it was
> built. I'll ask BB to recall back - buses can't pull in, LB got the
> electric to stop there, the tunnel was bad back then, the division
of
> east and west was an issue.
>
> 2. $50k for a consultant. (all the council has to do is read this
> board for free - we all have the answers...)
>
> 3. $2-$3million for a bridge over the tracks. Tell them this, I
will
> personally drive someone from oneside of the tracks to the other in
a
> mercedes. I figure I can do this for anywhere from 15-33 years -
> depending if I do the driving or hire out.
>
>
> 4. were from $5 million to $10 million, planning consultants
> said..... Nice range.
>
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