Actually, Tom Koenig has it wrong.  Only 1 lawsuit actually raised the price of rail due to the plaintiff winning the decision and causing a delay, and that would be the one where the city failed to conduct the AIS on the whole project before starting construction.  The other lawsuits never resulted in any delay in construction or resulted in a court ordered work stoppage.   What he also fails to mention is the delays due to the city awarding contracts early.  Please, do your research before blaming lawsuits by those against this rail as to why costs have increased.  Instead, why not explaining why costs have gone up so much in the past 4 years.  There hasn't been any lawsuits filed in the past 4 years, yet the costs seem to keep rising.