In Hurry up and waste we saw that city council increased a $1.25 million design contract to $4.7 million, no bidding necessary. This was in September, 2012.
The contract was for services to design a new trolley system for El Paso.
The Texas Transportation Commission supposedly had $90 million that it was ready to give to El Paso for the project. We later learned that the money was not available to us. Sadly we might have wasted our $4.7 million.
The amended contract gave the contractor 210 calendar days from the city’s “notice to proceed” to complete the design .
Where is it?
More than a calendar year has passed since the contract was amended. Where is the design?
I went to the city web site and got this page as a result of my search for “streetcar”:
Clicking the City Hosts Public Meetings to Present Preliminary Streetcar System link, I got this page:
We deserve better
Brutus
elpasospeak 
My bet is the trolley study is waiting for the parking study. Somehow, they will miraculously all be connected in the end…
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I don’t understand the connection between streetcars and the Sunmetro meetings for the LIFT program. Are lifts being put on streetcars that go from downtown to UTEP?
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It looks like they did not really post the streetcar study.
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It is probably in the same study queue as The Fountains tax abatement claw back for breach of contract conditions.
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