The Bullet Train was a Ballot Measure that the CA Voters Approved. Jerry Brown is just doing his Duty as King.
I think we should push a Ballot Initiative requiring everyone has a Solar Powered Flying Car paid for by the State of CA.
“The Bullet Train was a Ballot Measure that the CA Voters Approved. Jerry Brown is just doing his Duty as King.”
It was a measure passed by Democrats, not voters. Most of whom were illegal aliens brought in by Union buses. But, true enough, it was passed by “voters.” So, while technically a project CA “voted” for, it became such a priority that we had to sweeten it by Feds and new methods of tax raiding.
In 1996 the California High-Speed Rail Authority (CHSRA), was established to begin formal planning in preparation for a ballot measure in 1998 or 2000.
The ballot measure was originally scheduled to be put before voters in the 2004 general election; however, the state legislature voted twice to move it back, first to 2006, and finally to 2008 when 52.7% of voters approved the issuing of $9 billion in bonds for high speed rail in Proposition 1A, a measure to construct the initial segment of the network.
The measure authorized $9.95 billion in bond sales for the construction of the core segment between San Francisco and Los Angeles/Anaheim, and an additional $950 million for improvements on local railroad systems, which will serve as feeder systems to the planned high-speed rail system.
On January 28, 2010, the White House announced that California would receive $2.35 billion of its ARRA (American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009) request, of which $2.25 billion was allocated specifically for California High Speed Rail, while the rest was designated for conventional rail improvements.
Over the course of 2010 and 2011, the federal government awarded the Authority a further $4 billion in high-speed rail funding, mainly from states that had rejected it such as Florida.