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Officials now admit that the ARTIC transit hub will lose money from day one

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ARTIC

It turns out that the ARTIC transit hub might cost Anaheim residents a fortune – right from the start.  Apparently Anaheim City officials have not yet secured a corporate sponsor willing to put its name on a transit station opening Dec. 6, leading to a potential operating budget shortfall for the next seven months, according to the OC Register.

What this means is that it will cost more than $3.6 million to maintain and operate ARTIC through the end of June, but only half of that funding is secured.

The waste that is ARTIC and Measure M

The really ridiculous part of this mess is that Anaheim never needed ARTIC.  The train station at Angel Stadium was perfectly functional and user-friendly. Continue reading→

Pringle’s ARTIC boondoggle isn’t good enough for Starbucks

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ARTIC Station

From the OC Politics Blog

Expected to open by year-end (we can’t wait for the tax-funded party), Mayor-for-Hire Curt Pringle‘s Glass Barn actually attracted its first commercial tenant this summer. In a place he and Chief Minion, Anaheim Public Works Director Natalie “Natty” Meeks expect to be overrun by commuters and Disneyland guests, an unheard of coffee house with all of one other store in Newport Beach took out a lease for one expensive kiosk per this outside-the-paywall Art Marroquin story in the OC Register story dated yesterday:

City officials on Thursday touted that Lost Bean Organic Coffee and Tea is the first company to agree to rent a kiosk inside ARTIC. The shop signed a 10-year lease and will pay $5,332 a month.

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Breaking: Bullet Train Dealt Major Blow

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By the OC Politics Blog

Per the Associated Press late this afternoon, via KFI’s website (emphasis ours):

Dealing a major blow to California’s high-speed rail project, a Sacramento County judge has ruled that the agency overseeing the bullet train failed to comply with the financial and environmental requirements voters were promised on the ballot.

Superior Court Judge Michael Kenny, in a ruling late Friday, said the California High-Speed Rail Authority “abused its discretion by approving a funding plan that did not comply with the requirements of the law.” Continue reading→

Final stretch of improvements along 91 Freeway to break ground on 5/1

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 25, 2013

FOR MORE INFORMATION: Joel Zlotnik, OCTA, (714) 560-5713,  Yvonne Washington, Caltrans, (949) 724-2644

MEDIA ADVISORY

Final Stretch of Improvements Along SR-91 To Break Ground

WHAT: The Orange County Transportation Authority and Caltrans will break ground on a $64 million freeway project that will add a 4-mile westbound lane on the Riverside Freeway (SR-91) between the Orange Freeway (SR-57) and Santa Ana Freeway (I-5).

The project is the third segment in a series of improvements that has added 18 new miles of lanes to the SR-91 since December 2010. Continue reading→