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High-Speed Rail Board to Weigh in on Revised California Plan
ABC News/AP ^ | 4.28.2016 | juliet williams

Posted on 04/28/2016 1:48:51 PM PDT by MeganC

The board that oversees California's high-speed rail project is expected to approve a revised plan calling for a $64 billion approach that sends the train from the Central Valley to the San Jose area before it heads to Southern California.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: brownsfolly; california; centralvalley; highspeedrail; hsr; rail; sanjose; train
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To: MeganC; Willie Green

WillieGreen memorial ping.


21 posted on 04/28/2016 2:53:18 PM PDT by dynachrome (We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values.)
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To: MeganC

$64 billion could buy all of the following airlines employing 340,000 people and have $4 billion left over: United Airlines, Southwest Airlines, Lufthansa, Air France


22 posted on 04/28/2016 3:00:07 PM PDT by Reeses (A journey of a thousand miles begins with a government pat down.)
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To: MeganC

It’s initial estimates were something like $11 to $20 billion, believe it or not. And that $64 billion is hedging. I’ve already seen talk of $100 billion.

Oh BTW: For some reason California is seeking all sorts of new ways to increase revenue on the back of car drivers, toll lanes, MPG traveled taxes...

All of a sudden, gas tax dollars just don’t go as far as they used to for repairing a building new roads.

Scratching head... wonder where all that money went.


23 posted on 04/28/2016 3:12:23 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Ted Cruz, "But it's what plants need!")
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To: al baby

LA has been trying to build a Columbia River aqueduct for ages and they’ll never get it. Oregon, Idaho, and Washington would never stand for it.


24 posted on 04/28/2016 3:36:00 PM PDT by MeganC (The Republic of The United States of America: 7/4/1776 to 6/26/2015 R.I.P.)
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To: IllumiNaughtyByNature

Like solar and global warming this is a 64 billion dollar scam


25 posted on 04/28/2016 4:15:50 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: Two Kids' Dad

A French consortium proposed building a direct SF-to-LA line and they were going to pay for it and then hand it over to the state after fifty years. Obviously that would have been profitable so of course the Democrats hated it and instead came up with this jerrymandered idiocy of a route that took a possible 90 minute downtown-to-downtown trip and (in all due honesty) more than doubled it.


26 posted on 04/28/2016 4:22:31 PM PDT by MeganC (The Republic of The United States of America: 7/4/1776 to 6/26/2015 R.I.P.)
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To: glorgau

The train needs to be back burnered until California recovers.


27 posted on 04/28/2016 5:36:05 PM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: dynachrome

Lol


28 posted on 04/28/2016 6:44:32 PM PDT by indcons (Lurker mode mostly)
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To: Forward the Light Brigade

Recover?

Don’t you know the state is running a surplus? I read that a few months back.


29 posted on 04/29/2016 8:42:44 AM PDT by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
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