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The Orange County Transportation Authority board voted unanimously Monday to select PGH Wong Engineering to manage the OC Streetcar Project, a 4.15 mile route that would connect Santa Ana and Garden Grove.
Local officials hailed the president’s allocation of $125 million as a major step toward realization of the 4.1-mile streetcar line.
In 2009, the Santa Ana City Council triggered controversy by awarding a consulting contract to Cordoba Corp., even though the firm was the lowest ranked among bidders. In recent weeks, the firm has been quietly excluded from a new consulting contract.
Dozens of businesses along the main proposed route on Fourth Street have signed a petition opposing the path.
Cordoba Corp., awarded a controversial contract to plan the
city’s streetcar project, hired a manager who pleaded guilty to
bribing school officials in Texas.
Since first being elected nearly two decades ago, Mayor Miguel
Pulido has put together a well-oiled political operation in Santa
Ana. But in the year of the Bell scandal, his latest challenger is
banking on the public taking a more skeptical view of the Pulido
machine.