“One of the many messages I have also given is this is a $7 billion project, because the rest of it is contingency. We should be managing to that budget and the contingency is contingency. We don’t want to assume that’s going to be gobbled up in the cost, so that’s the mindset that I want our staff to have, is that the project is $7 billion. It’s not even the $8.1 billion, because that’s the contingency on top of the $7 billion.”  -Andy Robbins

http://khon2.com/2017/09/18/hart-submits-rail-recovery-plan-to-fta/