Posted on 03/05/2017 3:51:28 PM PST by MaxistheBest
In the first big hit to the Bay Area from the Trump administration, newly minted Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao has put the brakes on $647 million for Caltrain to go electric — and in the process pretty much killed for high-speed rail coming to San Francisco anytime soon.
“It puts the (electrification) project in serious jeopardy,” Caltrain spokesman Seamus Murphy said Friday.
Caltrain carries about 60,000 riders a day between the South Bay and San Francisco, but its diesel-driven trains are both costly to operate and slow. Officials see electrification as a way both to increase ridership and save money on operating costs.
Going electric would also allow the Peninsula line to be the final link in the high-speed rail system that Gov. Jerry Brown wants to stretch from San Francisco to Los Angeles. The Obama administration embraced the idea, but California Republicans have long portrayed it as a boondoggle and sought to kill it.
In a Jan. 24 letter to Chao, all 14 Republicans in the state’s congressional delegation called for the Caltrain money to be put on hold until a full audit is done on high-speed rail. On Friday, Chao obliged — the Federal Transit Administration, which she oversees, said a decision on the $647 million federal grant needed to keep the project going would be delayed.
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How about for starters the free and clear deeds to Sen. Feinstein's $40 million in Pacific Heights and Nancy Pelosi's $150 million winery AND just in case your real estate market tanks after you secede, we'll need also need the free and clear deed to the Golden Gate Bridge ... don't worry, we won't raise the new toll of $150 per car more than 10% per year over the 40 years we run it.
Good Deal !!!
The Browndoggle goes off the rails.
Winning!
If it is so good a deal, issue bonds and do it yourselves.
It is a beautiful State,full of enterprising people.Just ruined by come complete lunatics.
Trump should start calling it...” the Pelosi pause”
HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA! Oh this is just too funny!
They need to pay for and fix their dams and quit trying to be significant on the nations stage.
Hey, SF. Wanna talk about sanctuary city status now?
bingo!
They probably used the federal dam repair money to work on Obama’s/Moonbeam’s Toonerville Trolly....
“Katrinka Fix”
Get Hollywood to finance it....LOL
Why not use the electricity for telecommuting?
I’m sure California can put their own money into play rather than ours of a $647 million federal grant needed to keep the Bullit Train project going.....let them eat peas too!
“Officials see electrification as a way both to increase ridership and save money on operating costs.”
In a bygone era, reporters would have:
1) Named these ‘officials’
2) Asked exactly how electrification does all these wonderful things...because if spending $640 million would really save that much money over the long term, they wouldn’t need my tax money to do it.
If it is so good a deal, issue bonds and do it yourselves.
= = =
That’s what I thought.
I figgered CA could implode on its own.
Didn’t know about the Fed grant. Stop that, for sure!
They were hoping the dam issue would at the very least create federal dollars flowing when the Gov. declared it a state of emergency recently......and do enough damage to soak the taxpayer yet again.
They are so advanced they need to skip the train and go to transporters ala Star Trek
DiCaprio, Sean Penn and Streep ought to be clamoring to put their names on it...LOL
Don’t give Mexifornia an F’ing penny for anything—nothing!
I guess the CA Marxists can pay for it themselves or do without.
Wait till all federal money is withheld for that city, because that city refuses to obey and enforce the law.
Elections and breaking the law has consequences.
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