Lehigh Heavy Forge Corporation’s appeal of a Pennsylvania National Pollutant Discharge Eliminations Systems (NPDES) dated November 7, 2007, into the Lehigh River in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, hasn’t even been scheduled yet for a hearing and disposition.

Yet construction is proceeding apace on the Sands BethWorks Gaming Casino LLC project in the South Side Bethlehem, Pennsylvania neighborhood on the south bank and in the 100-year flood plain of the Lehigh River.

In addition, the Sands project has not yet received a Highway Occupancy Permit from PennDOT.

The reason for this premature haste and waste is that the city of Bethlehem and Sands has put the project on the “fast track,” much like the boast of dictator Beneto Mussolini that he had made Italy’s trains “run on time.”

To which Britain’s Prime Minister Winston Churchhill retorted, “In a democracy, the trains don’t always run on time.”

And to which the Billybytes publications with regards to the Sands BethWorks project of Sheldon Adelson and Michael Perrucci retorts, “It’s not going to run at all.”