Totally a big lie. At the time Grabauskas said lawsuits cost around $50 million and 11 month delay because they just continued working on other sections. He even bragged about how little impact it had in construction progress.
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Eventually the official HART total presented at HART board meetings was that the lawsuits cost between $70-$83 million, including legal fees. Not your totally bogus 2 year, $2B lie.
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All analysis of HART rail costs, especially when Hanabusa was chair as she did the best job in forcing some HART accountability was that the rail project inflicted the largest costs on itself by letting incomplete bids and designs too early causing massive penalties, redesign and contractor change orders. 
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These pro-rail bloggers are all using the same lies they are told to use from a talking point list rather than what actually happened and reported in the FTA contracted Jacobs engineering oversight reports and at HART board meetings.