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Gregoire and Mayor Nickles understood that it was important to wall off cost overruns from the City on the SR 99 portion of the project.

Open Letter to the Council: Take the Same Damn Risk You’re Asking Us To Take « PubliCola 2010

To focus all concern on cost overruns is a diversion from these and at least a dozen more important concerns which condemn the deep-bore tunnel to the wastebin of history and its proponents as either unwittingly incompetent or, in the case of certain highway planning directors, malevolently vindictive toward the good people of Seattle.

Open Letter to the Council: Take the Same Damn Risk You’re Asking Us To Take « PubliCola 2010

So let's say there's, what, $100 million in overruns, just to be conservative.

Council Should Unite Behind McGinn On The Tunnel Cost Overrun Provision « PubliCola 2010

My argument has always been that DBT (deep-bore tunnel) cost overruns is a disingenuous diversion from more important concerns regarding its basic engineering which is wholly fatally flawed.

Open Letter to the Council: Take the Same Damn Risk You’re Asking Us To Take « PubliCola 2010

The concept that its financial more risky (from Seattle's perspective) to delay construction versus than proceed with construction absent any certainty on cost overruns is absurd, even if one were to believe that cost will increase 5% per year.

McGinn Outfoxes Council President Conlin « PubliCola 2010

And opposing the state's threat to burden Seattle taxpayers with any and all cost overruns is NOT nitpicking.

Council Should Unite Behind McGinn On The Tunnel Cost Overrun Provision « PubliCola 2010

That sightline reports appears to assume that none of the $400 Million already budgeted for overruns is available or used used?

Open Letter to the Council: Take the Same Damn Risk You’re Asking Us To Take « PubliCola 2010

If it is not a party to the contract, then none of these overruns from the riskiest part of the project could in any way put on the city.

Resolve the Ambiguity « PubliCola 2010

NASA has the ability to open the solar system for the good of all mankind, but without R&T too much of the money is wasted in overruns (JWST overruns are another 9000 kg Elephant in the room that no one is talking about), which means that there is no money for R&T, which is a circular argument that just leads to more overruns.

Alan Stern on NASA's Cost Increase Problems - NASA Watch 2008

The opposite can also be seen easily: in cases where studies of alternative concepts have been well funded, and new technologies have been rigorously developed and matured the risk of overruns is much, much lower.

Alan Stern on NASA's Cost Increase Problems - NASA Watch 2008