Northeast corridor improvement project: hearings before a subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives, Ninety-fifth Congress, second session ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1978 |
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... percent of the work schedule for 1977 was completed . We know that only 63 percent of the trackwork was finished last year . Cost overruns , bad weather , and lack of proper equipment are blamed for this . But this project is now into a ...
... percent of the work schedule for 1977 was completed . We know that only 63 percent of the trackwork was finished last year . Cost overruns , bad weather , and lack of proper equipment are blamed for this . But this project is now into a ...
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... percent or relaying track 40 percent and so on . Those were the first - year problems . As far as I can recall , there was never any plan delay . Our first effort was always planned to start in April of 1977 with trackwork . We started ...
... percent or relaying track 40 percent and so on . Those were the first - year problems . As far as I can recall , there was never any plan delay . Our first effort was always planned to start in April of 1977 with trackwork . We started ...
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... percent re- newed ties and welded steel rail and about 675 miles with some- thing like 40 percent of the ties renewed . The second major item for about $ 165 million , as I recall from a programing viewpoint , was signaling and traffic ...
... percent re- newed ties and welded steel rail and about 675 miles with some- thing like 40 percent of the ties renewed . The second major item for about $ 165 million , as I recall from a programing viewpoint , was signaling and traffic ...
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... percent of what we had set up , but we are talking about 80 to 85 percent of only about 10 percent of the work . We never did really have an ambitious goal in 1977 for Amtrak . Mr. BURTON . So you set a goal for 10 percent , and you did ...
... percent of what we had set up , but we are talking about 80 to 85 percent of only about 10 percent of the work . We never did really have an ambitious goal in 1977 for Amtrak . Mr. BURTON . So you set a goal for 10 percent , and you did ...
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... percent of about 10 percent . Mr. MAGUIRE . Eighty - five percent of the portion that was to have been completed ? Mr. SAWYER . That would vary depending on the type of work . Of the things I would consider important in trackwork , one ...
... percent of about 10 percent . Mr. MAGUIRE . Eighty - five percent of the portion that was to have been completed ? Mr. SAWYER . That would vary depending on the type of work . Of the things I would consider important in trackwork , one ...
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A/E Contractor Amtrak Anti-Deficiency Act approval ARLAN STANGELAND audit authority Baltimore tunnel Bechtel bridges BURTON Cather/Parsons CAYWOOD Chairman completed Congress ConRail construction management Contracting Officer Control Engineer corridor improvement project cost COTR coverage damage DCP's Department of Transportation engineering Federal Railroad Administration freight funds GEDNEY going Government HALTERMAN implementation indemnification inspection involved labor Lawson leased equipment Leuw liability insurance LYONS MAGUIRE ment Metroliners million national defense NECIP Northeast corridor improvement operations package PALUMBO passenger percent performance planning problems procurement product liability production professional liability Project Director Public Law purchase order Purchase Requisition pursuant question rail redirection study REISTRUP Release Rental Control request responsibility risk SAWYER schedule Section self-insurance space frame specific staff stations subcommittee subcontractors SULLIVAN talking things THOMPSON tion track miles trains trip-time goals unusually hazardous vehicles Washington Welding York
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