Posted on 03/23/2015 3:07:25 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Around 25 business owners and supporters of Fresno’s Chinatown gathered Sunday afternoon to share their concerns about the imminent high-speed rail construction along Kern and F streets.
Chinatown Revitalization Inc. listed many concerns including that Spanish and Chinese speaking business owners have not been notified of the construction.
Verta Gonzalez, who runs Floreria Rubi at 1515 Tulare St., said she had no idea about the coming construction.
Gonzalez said business owners who speak English perhaps are able to defend themselves better.
“It’s like they think Mexicans don’t matter,” she said of the rail authority.
Rail authority spokeswoman Lisa Alley said agency employees, many of whom speak Spanish, go door-to-door handing out information about construction three to six weeks in advance. She said written notifications are also provided in Spanish, Hmong and Chinese.
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Train to nowhere.
But it’s all about Moonbeam’s legacy, don’tcha know. Screw the people.
Forget it Jake. It’s Chinatown.
>concerns including that Spanish and Chinese speaking business owners have not been notified of the construction
Join the USA and speak English you idiot. If you like your mexican country, you can go live there and speak its language anytime you idiot.
There will be bloddd ..
Sad. A waste of taxpayer money.
Priorities of the state?
#1 - Feed your donors and keeper!
How is it possibly these people can come here, get established, then open public businesses and then complain something is unfair because they don’t speak the English language?
This is utter BS.
“Train to nowhere.”
I hear that one a lot and it’s not a valid argument against this HSR plan.
The first sections of the Interstate Highway System were built in rural parts of Missouri and Kansas and they linked rural communities with rural communities. No major cities of any kind benefited from these first sections of road.
And that was by design.
See, the US route system was supposed to provide for four-lane highways all over the USA but after the cities got their parkways built the politicians never quite got around to funding the rural sections that would link the cities.
To make sure that the rural sections of the Interstates got built the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 required that rural sections of highway were finished before the urban sections were finished. Otherwise the Interstate System would have just ended up as a series of regional super-highways linked by two-lane roads.
High speed rail systems that are being built with Federal money are required to use the same proven method to make sure that they get finished. Otherwise all that would be built would just be the urban sections and they’d never link up. This was the urban sections have an established rural section to immediately connect to when they eventually start service.
For the record, I do NOT support this HSR plan. I did support the French consortium that wanted to build a SF to LA route with 100% private funds along an alignment that was mostly rural. It’s the California Democrats who gerrymandered the thing into being a union jobs program and into being a cash cow for the politicians who bought desert land around Palmdale and Lancaster (land that will be bought at a premium for HSR).
Respectfully,
Megan
Would be kinda ironic if in the future you get on one of these trains and die of thirst - no water available on the train due to drought.
Perhaps they’ll reconsider their voting habits now...maybe.
Tell the state it is ILLEGAL mexicans. They’ll listen. The Chinese in Fresno are citizens.
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