Posted on 05/22/2017 2:51:08 PM PDT by Drago
SAN FRANCISCO - The Trump administration announced Monday that it will fully fund a $650 million federal grant for electrification of a San Francisco Bay Area train system that also would help California's high-speed rail project.
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Does anybody ride trains anymore, besides local commutes and subways?...................
I oppose any taxpayer money going to sanctuary cities!!!
Why doesn’t every man, woman and child in the US just pull $2 out of their pocket and send it to CA. Oh wait, we just did.
I can’t say I agree with President Trump on this.
WTF? PRyno and the House approves?
Why? San Francisco is not going to do Trump any favors, he should either not spend the money at all, (Federal Budget everybody!) or he should send it to people who do not detest him.
I ride trains 140 miles a day to get to and from work. In fact I’m on one now from NYC to CT. I pay $388 a month for the privilege, not including $325/yr for parking at the train station.
Much better than driving. Get a lot of reading done.
No!
mostly a big waste of tax money
the regular trains run just fine between Gilroy, San Jose, Palo Alto, and San Francisco etc.
Electrification has a few benefits but hardly’s worth the expense.
As can be discerned from the article (and is very very well known in CA), electrification of the existing train is a disguise, sneaky way to suck a big chunk of taxpayer funds for the useless, stupid, silly “train to nowhere” that Governor Brown’s been pushing on California’s citizens.
It’s a stupid project but the ‘train to nowhere’ thing is just as much fake news as anything about Russia and President Trump.
California’s HSR project is being built in the rural areas first for the same reasons that Interstate highways were all built in the rural areas first. If they don’t do it this way then the city politicians will finance the system in their cities and never pay for the connecting sections.
It’s for the Caltrain commuter system that serves the towns (and the city of San Jose) to the south of San Francisco.
Since I don’t think California should fund the bullet train, I don’t think the federal government should fund this, but allegedly funding is required by current federal law.
I think California should just use overnight sleeper train service between LA and SF.
I would never use the high-speed train.
Overnight bus service is what I used when I traveled between SF and LA (and LA and Sacramento).
Someone tell Trump to stop this boondoggle for Pelosi.
This looks like we are rewarding the Bay Area for creating a sanctuary for illegal aliens—if you fund it you get more of it.... :-(
Rewarding a sanctuary city, nice! Who will hold the funds in san Francisco? local rat anti trump liberal pukes? This is a bad idea, we need concessions and a federal over site committee to keep track of the work and funds AFTER they remove themselves from sanctuary city status
Why, why, why? Maybe it’s to pack more people in there so when the big earthquake comes, fewer survive. Let’s hope so.
Which one is fake news?
This is a local commuter train.
Runs from Gilroy to San Francisco. Its the main route to San Jose, and up the SF peninsula. Its the usual rush hour train.
Why fund a sanctuary city? What is going on, thought Trump said this would stop. This is NEW funding, thus, should carry out his promise.
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