Feinstein's husband certainly is a busy man!

[fooj]

http://www.bechtel.com/Briefs/1104/Underground.htm

Ticket to Success
A public-private partnership is leading a
major project to modernize much of
London's venerable subway system.

By John Altdorfer
Photographs by Zute Lightfoot



Project Slide Show

LOCATION
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London
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CUSTOMER
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London Underground
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DESCRIPTION
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Designing and building infrastructure of three
Underground rail lines,
including trains, signaling,
tracks, bridges, drainage, escalators, and elevators
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SCOPE
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Planning and development,
engineering, procurement,
construction, and maintenance
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VALUE
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$7.5 billion
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SCHEDULE
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30-year contract running through 2033 with reviews every 7½ years
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Understanding the PPP
A public-private partnership (PPP) brings together corporations and government organizations to undertake projects neither sector could pull off alone.


The London Underground is the world’s oldest subway, and its age showed. After years of underinvestment leading to a “fix and mend” maintenance approach, the tangle of tunnels and rails beneath the city needed a massive financial infusion and a commitment to a systemwide overhaul. The solution: a unique public-private partnership between the Underground and Tube Lines, a consortium created for the project.

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Isn't Bechtel one of the top no-bid contractors in Iraq? :mad:

[EFerrari]

1. I just can't know this. My head is going to EXPLODE.

Then who will feed the cats?!

:(

[fooj]

2. Hopefully the same person that will feed my dog!

Geez...:banghead:

[EFerrari]

3. Before the invasion, I wrote to her and she sent back

the most mendacious reply possible.

Diplomacy has failed & I have super secret knowledge that you don't. Trust me.

Yeah, right. I trust her all the way to the bank.

What a disgusting perversion of representative government she embodies. I remember when Mayor Moscone and Sup. Harvey Milk were murdered. She did something for this town then. She held it together.

You wouldn't recognize her as being the same person.

[Webster Green]

4. She was on the guest list for tonite's state dinner at the White House...

Isn't that special?

[EFerrari]

5. Closet Freep

And I hope my fellow Californians find the fortitude to stop appeasing the DLC and throw her @ss out of office.

It won't been soon enough.

[fooj]

6. It won't be soon enough for me.

Peace.

[DemBeans]

7. I think it's the wrong company

I don't think Blum is involved with Bechtel, he's tied up with URS and Perini Group. He's a war profiteer to be sure, but I don't think it's through Bechtel.