The orange-Republican administration has said all kinds of things that it will do to make the United States “great again.” Anyone with half of a brain cell knows that this administration has very little interest in actually coming through on any of his campaign promises. It’s almost like he is pathologically compelled to do the opposite. For example, rebuilding our infrastructure.
In the first big hit to the Bay Area from the Trump administration, newly minted Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao has put the brakes on $647 million for Caltrain to go electric — and in the process pretty much killed hopes for high-speed rail coming to San Francisco anytime soon.
“It puts the (electrification) project in serious jeopardy,” Caltrain spokesman Seamus Murphy said Friday.
The hope in California was to begin creating jobs through much needed infrastructure work and upgrades. Our country’s infrastructure, as many already know, is not only an issue of needing basic maintenance, we need to modernize virtually everything.
Caltrain has already spent $150 million on planning to go electric, but without the federal and matching funds, the overall […]
When we heard that Gov. Brown had awarded the contract for this to Senator Feinstein’s husband, we thought this was corruption as usual.
Right now we obviously need to work on our water systems.
We are so rich that we can afford to secede from the Union, so we certainly don’t need Federal funds for anything.
In a communication-centric world, there is less need to move people between LA and SF. On Webex I can be meeting with people in LA in a few seconds.
Hmmm..I wonder if California could afford high speed rail of it stopped sending money to the district of columbia (corruption) altogether?
Seems like a matter of priorities..would California rather pay for infrastructure or fund NSA surveillance, dropping bombs on other countries and other stupid adventures of fed.gov?
We already have rail service between SF and LA, so it would be more cost-effective to upgrade that line.