“I believe that anybody in the eighth...
“I believe that anybody in the eighth grade can tell you that if you are going to build something you must first buy the land.”
--RTD General Manager Alan Pegg, contending that federal auditors who say that the Metro Rail project is experiencing huge cost overruns failed to consider that much of the money was spent at the outset to purchase land for the line.
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