[PJ-Comix]

I wonder if there will be Yellow Jacket protests in California against the rise in gas taxes in order to pay for their Train to Nowhere. I believe the original cost was supposed to be about $10 billion but is now approaching $100 billion for that high speed train which was originally supposed to go from L.A. to San Francisco but has now been scaled back to end up at....Fresno?

[SoCal Pubbie]

We have our answer. My fellow Californians voted NOT to cancel the gas tax increase.

[xp38]

FR hq! What’s not to like? :)

[niteowl77]

I wonder if there will be Yellow Jacket protests in California against the rise in gas taxes in order to pay for their Train to Nowhere. I believe the original cost was supposed to be about $10 billion but is now approaching $100 billion for that high speed train which was originally supposed to go from L.A. to San Francisco but has now been scaled back to end up at....Fresno?

If the men who built and ran Iowa's WWI-era interurbans could see this, they'd be shoving yellow jackets up somebody's ashpan. They built fast, they built cheap (relatively), and by 1918, they could run electric coaches between terminals at an astonishing rate. What is more, they also managed to run freight trains at night.

I noticed the gasoline prices dropping steadily here in Iowa too. We may be barbarians and/or yokels, but we're barbarians and/or yokels who are out driving around.