The Transportation Authority is Suing itself…

Originally Published Mar. 8, 2021

Okay, this is only partially true. Obviously, the Transportation Authority(CLDTA, or TA), as a whole, can’t sue itself. Instead, it is suing the people responsible for the situation I will now explain.

So this whole problem centers around a road that was built alongside New Year’s Plaza: Rosalynn Lane.

Rosalynn Lane where it intersects with New Years Plaza 

Now, as you can tell from the picture, Rosalynn looks pretty normal. It’s quartz surrounded by clay. What’s the problem? The problem is with what kind of Quartz it is.

According to “Laws and Restrictions of Roadways and Railways within Courdelane“, which is the book which covers all the laws saying how roads can be built, it says the following:

“The center two meters [of the road] must consist of Quartz Block, and the outer two must consist of Light Gray Terracotta.” -Section 2, Item 2

In that quote, it says that the quartz must be Quartz Block, while Rosalynn is made from Chiseled Quartz. As such this is a violation of that rule.


Chiseled Quartz in New Years Plaza, taken under shade to exaggerate contrast. 

So what’s gonna happen, and who’s it gonna happen to? Well, as for what’s going to happen, it’s quite simple: They’re going to sue for $32,900, paid in full by each of the people they’re suing. This is because the road is 347 meters long, with two 9-meter Boulevard crossings, which do follow the Quartz rule. They’re being sued $100 per meter of road, which is literally the first rule you see when you open the Laws and Restrictions of Roadways and Railways within Courdelane.

“Any entity found breaking and or all laws listed below are subject to a fine of [$100] per meter of illegal road/rail.” -Section 1, Item 1


So, who exactly is being sued then? After all, the TA owns the road. This is where my title was only partially true. You see, while the CDLTA can’t actually sue itself properly, there’s nothing saying it can’t sue it’s staff, and that’s exactly what’s happening here.

You see, each project has 3 pig players, and in the case of Rosalynn, 4. The CDLTA, who manages everything; the Project Manager for that specific project, who looks over plans and works with the other parts; the Construction Company, who builds the thing; and in this case, the private land owner who requested that a road be put through their property. And here, all but the CDLTA are being sued that full $32,900 each.

The TA is able to the case that even Crescent Holdings, the company who owns New Years Park and the land it’s on (minus the road) since they too were given the rule book and told to look over it, since they would be part of the construction process.

The construction company was also supplied the book for them to look over, and they reportedly never said anything about Rosalynn’s construction materials.

And finally, the Project Manager was expected to have an intimate knowledge of the laws, or at least read up on the relevant ones for the project, and they’re getting it the worst since they’re getting sued and fired.

As for what the TA is going to do about the Road Material, they said they’re going to replace it all with the normal Quartz Block, minus the section that goes through New Years Plaza, instead sorta just having Rosalynn end at one side of it and begin back out the other, so there’s legally a hole in the road.

This situation wasn’t even unique, you’d be surprised how many people build roads wrong and then get sued tens of thousands of dollars for it. The reason I reported on this specific case is because of just how long Rosalynn has been around and fully breaking the law. It even had to intersect two Boulevards, which would have required their department to go on site and work things out. My guess is that they only wanted to make sure all the signage was right and everything lined up and so weren’t really responsible for this whole ordeal.

Now to answer the final question, Why didn’t the CLDTA notice for a year that a whole road was built wrong? It’s a valid question since usually they’d send someone on site to inspect the roads and their plans to make sure it’s all up to snuff and legal. Problem is, for a long while now the CLDTA has had their budgets cut since apparently the government is low on cash. This, along side the growing road network as the city expands at the speed of sound, means that they couldn’t afford to hire their usual inspector, and just hoped that the project manager, who they’d had for well over 30 years by this point, would do their job.

Makes me wonder how much else in the outskirts of town has gone entirely unnoticed…