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PleaseBmoreCharming t1_iy4th31 wrote

>That fall, Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan was standing at a fenced-off site affixed with Boring signs near Fort Meade and telling a videographer to “get ready” for a high-speed train from Baltimore to Washington. Mr. Hogan declined to comment.

>An aide to Mr. Hogan toured a parking-lot test site at the company’s then-headquarters near Los Angeles International Airport, getting a look at a tunnel-boring machine the company purchased secondhand. Boring named it Godot, the title character in Samuel Beckett’s play about a man who never shows up.

>The Republican Hogan administration sped up the bureaucratic process for Boring, granting a conditional permit in October 2017 and an environmental permit a few months later.

>All Boring had to do was bring its machine and start digging, former Maryland officials said. But months, and then years, passed. Maryland was waiting for Godot.

>Boring deleted the Maryland project from its website last year.

🤦🤦🤦 Larry and friends getting duped when it was staring them right in the face.

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todareistobmore t1_iy52jw3 wrote

Hogan wasn't even getting duped, he cared more about the photo op and the headline than any such system (like this, the maglev, or anything remotely feasible) getting built.

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Angdrambor t1_iy5w4fk wrote

The man must have a special talent for getting kickbacks from contractors.

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[deleted] t1_iy6az93 wrote

The dude killed a billion dollars in federal funding for the red line. Hogan is ridiculously anti public transit

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EfficiencySuch6361 t1_iy7cdn9 wrote

And pissed away $300M already spent on design by MD for that same project as well

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Hisyphus t1_iy6es2i wrote

Anything that might help poor Marylanders is going to get strangled in it’s infancy under Hogan. If it helps poor Black people it’s dead before that.

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