LOS ANGELES : MTA Chairman Calls for Control of Cost Overruns
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Metropolitan Transportation Authority Chairman Michael D. Antonovich, alarmed by embarrassing new disclosures of cost overruns at the agency, ordered immediate steps Friday to tighten controls and called for a special board meeting to investigate the issue.
His directive, in a letter to MTA Chief Executive Officer Franklin E. White, came a day after agency officials disclosed that contractors on a new rail line planned for Pasadena have made at least several million dollars in unauthorized design changes on the $1-billion project.
Design work on the line is already $14 million over its initial budget.
“The failure to seek authorization for [design changes], that mentality of bankrupting the taxpayers is unconscionable,” Antonovich said.
“Frank [White] was hired to fix the problem, and if he can’t there has to be a change.”
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