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President Obama’s proposed FY 2013 budget should be tattooed to the foreheads of the Legislative Analyst’s Office, the State Auditor, the Peer Review Group, and any other California government agency that has criticized the state’s high speed rail project as “risky” due to concerns about federal funding. Obama’s budget includes $47 billion for passenger rail, [...]
According to the LA Times, “virtually all” of California’s Democratic Congressional delegation signed a letter denouncing the Republican “highway bill” that defunds most forms of mass transit, including high speed rail: As Congress gears up for an unusual fight over a new transportation bill, virtually all of California’s Democratic delegation has come out against the [...]
Much of the recent attack on high speed rail in California, especially by credulous government watchdog agencies like the Legislative Analyst’s Office and the State Auditor, is due to the fact that the extremist House Republican majority is rapidly anti-rail and has cut future high speed rail funding in pursuit of that agenda. For some [...]
Led by the radical extremists in the House of Representatives, the Republican Party has gotten itself a reputation as being vehemently opposed to not just high speed rail, but passenger rail itself. There are still many Republicans around the country, including in the state legislature, who do support HSR. And as the New York Times [...]
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