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In Blow to Bullet Train, California Might Shift Billions of Dollars to L.A., Bay Area Projects
KTLA ^
| 07/30/2019
Posted on 07/30/2019 2:06:41 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Assembly Democrats see greater public value in improving passenger rail from Burbank to Anaheim, relieving congestion on the busy Interstate 5 corridor before the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles and putting additional money into San Francisco commuter rail. The proposal has been taken more seriously in recent weeks, and supporters think it will meet the tricky legal requirements of the high-speed rail project.
“I like the concept,” said Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon (D-Lakewood). “Any project that doesn’t have a significant amount of service to the largest areas in the state doesn’t make much sense.”
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TOPICS: US: California
KEYWORDS: california; rail; transportation
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posted on
07/30/2019 2:06:41 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
The Train Graft has already been paid out, time for a new scam.
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posted on
07/30/2019 2:08:29 PM PDT
by
tcrlaf
(They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....ew)
To: BenLurkin
So instead of sending money that we do not have to fund a project that will not work, we will send that non-existent money to a place for projects that we haven’t thought about yet.
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posted on
07/30/2019 2:08:48 PM PDT
by
fhayek
To: BenLurkin
Always was the fallback plan.
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posted on
07/30/2019 2:09:32 PM PDT
by
CatOwner
To: BenLurkin
💩👮🚜
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posted on
07/30/2019 2:09:41 PM PDT
by
rktman
( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
To: BenLurkin
Why should the Rurals have to pay for the Big City elite?
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posted on
07/30/2019 2:09:48 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: fhayek; tcrlaf
I think tcrlaf may have put his finger right on it.
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posted on
07/30/2019 2:09:51 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
To: BenLurkin
“might shift billions of dollars” is the key phrase.
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posted on
07/30/2019 2:12:00 PM PDT
by
Pajamajan
( Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord for everything you have. Don't wait. Do it today.)
To: BenLurkin
A blow? California has been blowing taxpayers.
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posted on
07/30/2019 2:12:22 PM PDT
by
Drango
(A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
To: BenLurkin
How about diverting that money to reirrigate the San Juaquin Valley so that Green Giant and Del Monte can start feeding the country again.
-PJ
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posted on
07/30/2019 2:13:55 PM PDT
by
Political Junkie Too
(The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
To: BenLurkin
How to steal billions of dollars right in front of you. I think governmental/political theft has cost the taxpayers multi-Trillions of dollars.
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posted on
07/30/2019 2:14:05 PM PDT
by
shanover
(...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
To: Pajamajan
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posted on
07/30/2019 2:15:58 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
To: BenLurkin
So, it’s true! People can’t get OUT of Burbank fast enough! LOL! :)
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posted on
07/30/2019 2:18:45 PM PDT
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(We come from the earth, we return to the earth, and in between we garden.~Alfred Austin)
To: BenLurkin
After seeing what PDJT has been doing with respect to Baltimore and King Elijah, all of a sudden California thinks it might have something new to do with all the choo-choo moolah.
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posted on
07/30/2019 2:21:21 PM PDT
by
Steely Tom
([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
To: tcrlaf
That elevated crap they built on AG land will be like a ‘Stonehenge’ to corrupt stupid government.
I hate it here, but for the weather...
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posted on
07/30/2019 2:22:26 PM PDT
by
glasseye
("24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence? I think not." ~ H. L. Mencken)
To: BenLurkin
Taxes are raised for one thing yet the politicians lie and lie and they divert the money to another pet project.
To: BenLurkin
Sagan....Not sure about his politics but always liked him.
Always thought Sagan’s paradox made perfect sense and was replete with something often lacking in the scientific community, common sense.
To: Paladin2
Its for the good of Panem of course...
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posted on
07/30/2019 2:31:31 PM PDT
by
Magnum44
(My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
To: BenLurkin
BulletTrain proposal was a scam from day 1
look into Dianne Feinstein and several more?
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posted on
07/30/2019 2:31:39 PM PDT
by
faithhopecharity
( “Politicians are not born; they are excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
To: Paladin2
Amen
Misuse of public funds
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posted on
07/30/2019 2:34:31 PM PDT
by
ptsal
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