The train to nowhere is going to get more blood money from the people of California. While we need more cops, need to open our schools, take care of the homeless, work on the mental health issues of children due to Newsom and friends killing off education, unions and greedy corporations are making out like bandits.
“a statement reacting to the budget. “Returning humans to the moon will be quicker and cheaper than California’s attempt to build a railroad from San Francisco to LA,” Waldron said. “If the governor really wants to turn things around in California, he needs to make government more responsive, efficient and competent — not just bigger.”
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More high-speed rail money in Gavin Newsom’s CA budget.
THADDEUS MILLER, Fresno Bee, 1/11/22/
California’s high-speed rail would get about $4.2 billion toward finishing the central San Joaquin Valley portion in Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposed state spending plan, which he unveiled Monday. The budget describes the money going to the rail from Merced to Bakersfield as advanced work, while dollars would also go to advanced planning for the entire project. Originally planned from Los Angeles to San Francisco, the rail project has been pared down to connecting the Central Valley without the larger city destinations on either end. In his first state of the state in 2019, Newsom said the project didn’t have the pathway to the longer route. ×
Media updated on Fresno County’s first and second homicides of the year The project has been criticized, including from Democrats like Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon, who called for the state to redirect high-speed rail money to urban transportation projects. In the budget plan presented this week, Newsom said new money was important for “getting those final appropriations and finish(ing) the job in the Central Valley.
The 119-mile high-speed rail project has been under construction in Fresno, Madera, Kings, Tulare and Kern counties for seven years. Proposition 1A in 2008 provided a total of more than $9.9 billion to help pay for development and construction of high-speed rail in California. Ahead of his big announcement Monday, Newsom had previewed that his budget would include spending some of the anticipated surplus on infrastructure, something lawmakers on both sides of the aisle say they support. On Monday, he announced he wants to spend $9.1 billion on transportation.
He also said he wants to give Californians a modest “gas tax holiday” by suspending a scheduled gas tax increase that would otherwise take effect in July. Assembly Republican Leader Marie Waldron took aim at Newsom’s high-speed rail plans in a statement reacting to the budget. “Returning humans to the moon will be quicker and cheaper than California’s attempt to build a railroad from San Francisco to LA,” Waldron said. “If the governor really wants to turn things around in California, he needs to make government more responsive, efficient and competent — not just bigger.”
