By Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez : sfexaminer – excerpt
The Bay Area should conduct a national search for new leadership to finally bring trains to the Salesforce Transit Center, a peer review panel of national infrastructure experts has concluded.
While hinted at in previous months, that panel’s findings were made public today and will serve as the jumping off point to ensure the Bay Area’s $6 billion investment in new train infrastructure isn’t derailed.
New leadership would need experience planning and leading “urban rail megaprojects,” the panel found…
The new report suggests the project’s leadership shouldn’t get a second crack at the job.
That leadership, the Transbay Joint Powers Authority staff, should only serve as one agency among many in the Bay Area studying and building what is known as the Caltrain Downtown Rail Extension, the peer review panel assembled by consultancy WSP/McKinsey concluded in its newly published report…(more)
FIX THE SFMTA 
another example of a Bay Area newspaper skittering across the surface without taking the trouble to look beyond the obvious
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