According to an article in yesterday’s LA Times:
The California high-speed train project will receive at least $731 million from a $902-million grant the federal government awarded on Monday for rail improvements across the state.
According to the U.S. Department of Transportation, $715 million will help pay for the design and construction of a section of the planned bullet train in the Central Valley. An additional $16 million was earmarked for the high-speed rail corridor between San Francisco and San Jose.
You know how to better spend that money? On much less glamorous intra-city public transportation. How many people each day will ride a train from San Francisco to Los Angeles – 1000, 10,000, 100,000? How many people would benefit from improving bus and rail service in LA County? Ten million in the metropolitan area, first by making commuting easier, and then by reducing greenhouse gas emissions by the removal of those commuters from their cars.
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