SF subway stalled after contractor lays down wrong track, city says

[Satanica]

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...m_source=CMS Sharing Button&utm_medium=social

The opening of Muni’s Central Subway from Caltrain to Chinatown is already a year behind schedule, but it could be pushed into 2020 after the discovery that a contractor installed 3.2 miles of the wrong grade of rail.

In an April 19 letter, the Municipal Transportation Agency told contractor Tutor Perini that it would reject the rails as not meeting the specifications of the contract, and called for them to be removed and replaced with high-strength rails at the contractor’s expense. That cost is unknown.

As first reported in the San Francisco Examiner, an independent auditor discovered the problem. The project calls for the use of high-strength steel rail for the $1.6 billion subway, but Tutor Perini and a subcontractor, Con-Quest Contractors, installed standard-strength rails, the MTA said.
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[notchback]

It's Atlas Shrugged all over again.

 

[cubby]

And they should refund the cost of the substandard rail and install the proper rail at their own expense PLUS they should not be able to get another city or state contract for 5 years. They WILL do the work right or they won't be working.

I guarantee you if the substandard rail had slipped thru without being caught by the inspector the company would not have fixed it and they would have kept the difference in the money. Which is FRAUD.

 

[Sejanus]

Cutting corners.
No way this was an oversight.
Ban them from operating in the city.