Ed Driggs
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13,582 appearances
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3 series
first heard Sep 2023
last heard 14 Sep
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So if they didn't think that a funding model that could cause the project to be, they would just stop working on it.
Now, at that point, the issue of what list it stays on is really moot.
What you would expect is the $600 million, and you talked about funded and so on.
I want to clarify, funded means that $600 million was committed by the state and is being held.
That's funded, okay?
It's insufficiently funded.
Right?
So that's why the P3 question came up.
But unless CRTPO had agreed to move ahead with a P3, they would have stopped working on this thing because they would have said it has no future and I'm not going to waste my time.
And then my expectation would be that when you went from P8, which is where we are now in the sequence of STIP planning cycles, it would get dropped and the 600 million would be reassigned.
So...
One thing that was made clear to us the whole time we discussed this was we need to find a way to move forward because this has been on the books for 10 years and it's been sitting there while it got more and more expensive and it was further and further out of reach for state funding.
And that's why they said they came to us.
They have to get federal approval from CRTPO in order to pursue a STIP.
So the question was put to us.
We worked on it for several months.
We put in a whole bunch of requirements.
And on that basis, they still worked on it.
None of this happens, right?
If there is no P3, NCDOT is not going to see any basis for engaging in discussions about any of these things.
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