Fool’s Gold relocation for i-99
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Crew prepare to truck acid rock – CDT
Yesterday’s CDT has the details of the environmental remediation along i-99.
There were a couple opinion pieces too:
Last week I exchanged some emails with Mike Joseph, the reporter who has been covering the story from the beginning. Apparently, Bud Shuster, the U.S. House representative who added a rider to avoid environmental testing for the road, has not returned any of Joseph’s calls. Shuster stepped down before this all happened, though his son won a special election to take his seat. The elder Shuster may have cost taxpayers $50 million because of his recklessness. I also confirmed with Joseph that this part of i-99 wasn’t even in Shuster’s district.
i-99, Port Matilda, PennDOT, Skytop, Pennsylvania
[...] the Rep. Bud Shuster instead of through AASHTO. It turns out that was much less offesnive than the removal of environmental testing the Shuster championed. Sure enough, there was an environmental problem that cost about $80 million [...]