Take the money from the High Speed Rail, defund Calaid for Illegals, etc. and there will be plenty of money for roads.
That is an argument over where funds are allocated. I’m with you on that. Unfortunately, your elected reps in California, both GOP and Dem, have not been willing to change that.
The GOP representatives that complain the most about the diversion of funds consistently vote in favor of continuing the diversion. It is NOT EVEN split votes. And I am not talking about the Legislature. That is Dem controlled.
At the local and regional level where transportation voices can be raised, GOPers and Dems alike are silent and voting yes to things like High Speed Rail and against anything that would stop diversion of transportation funds.
>>Take the money from the High Speed Rail, defund Calaid for Illegals, etc. and there will be plenty of money for roads.<<
Californians were ALREADY paying gasoline taxes specifically for roads and infrastructure.
The legislature just flat-out STOLE those funds and have come begging. Watch — in 5 years they will ask again.
Frankly I think it is funny (I mean as schadenfreude) that liberal California passed the most regressive tax imaginable.
If I was still living there I would wince but it would not interfere with our lifestyle.
But for poor schlubs barely able to come up with the 45% or whatever of their take-home pay for rent and driving from Apple Valley to Montebello, this will be the difference between eating and starving.