Delays, huge costs threaten ground zero rebuild

[WriteDown]

Source: AP

NEW YORK - It's going to take longer — and cost a lot more than earlier estimated — to replace the office towers, transportation links and cultural spaces at the World Trade Center site.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, in a report being released Thursday, is expected to delay a multibillion-dollar transit hub it is building until 2014 and stagger the schedules for four planned office towers to the needs of the commercial real estate market.

Responding to public pressure by the mayor and the governor, the agency that owns the 16-acre site is expected to prioritize the memorial to the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks and commit to opening the reflecting pools that mirror the twin towers' footprints by the 10th anniversary.....

Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26988662/from/ET/

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I knew they would never build anything to replace them.

[Stellabella]

1. Yet another of Bush's failures.

I can't believe that more than seven years later they don't even have a memorial, let alone buildings.

[WriteDown]

2. I can't lay this at the feet of Bush....

this is straight NY/NJ bureaucracy. Same reasons that all construction moves at a snails pace in NY. Same reason the crane inspectors are all bribed to grease the wheels.

[nyc 4 Biden]

3. Just gov't construction sites move like snails.

7 World Trade was open for business in 2006. That was built privately.

[WriteDown]

4. Good point n/t

[carla]

7. I wonder what a Geiger counter would reveal at the WTC hole in the ground?

[Juan_de_la_Dem]

5. I just saw it 2 weeks ago and it was coming along - more jobs lost I guess

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

6. Bush America: Can't fill a fucking hole

and Ray Nagin got the full force of the fake outrage machine for a pretty reasonable observation