The Califnornia High Speed Rail Soap…
- -The plan: Electric Bullet Trains connecting Los Angeles to San Francisco
- - State voters approved the $10 billion bond in November of 2008. (In reality, $42B) (First mistake… voters did not thoroughly read it through)
- - The project received a $2.5 billion pot from the feds in May.
- - Estimated cost is now at more than 2x CA state deficit, at $42 billion.
- - Recent estimates are that the HSRA already has $11B in subsidy funds.
- - 31 states are eligible or will get part of a $31 billion pot to invest in and build high-speed rail, connecting all major cities. [Obama Admin Awards High Speed Rail Funds]
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Then Why are Peninsula residents of Northern California fighting it?
It’s how the local consumers, Peninsula residents, are being treated. We’ve been told what’s going to happen from day one. Not asked. Told. As Diana Diamond reported in the August 9th Daily Post Opinion section [pg 8] in an article titled “Rail plan was a ‘done deal’ from the start”
She notes that18 months previous to her report that Rod Diridon told Menlo Park and Palo Alto city councils that the high speed rail configuration for the peninsula was a “done deal.” She went on to detail how Diridon went on saying at that time that HSRA didn’t need any input from local cities because the board had already decided how the tracks will run through Peninsula cities.
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