$10 billion train for Cali residents

[battlebot]

"..........A nearly $10 billion bond measure that would help pay for a high-speed rail line between Los Angeles and the San Francisco area will be on California's 2008 November ballot. Plans also call for links to Sacramento and San Diego.

But a vote on the bond measure has been delayed twice already, and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger wants lawmakers to bump it from the 2008 ballot.

Ma said she and other high-speed rail supporters hope to persuade Schwarzenegger to support the 2008 vote and to increase funding in his proposed budget to allow the state's high-speed rail board to do engineering work and begin buying right of way for the bullet trains in the next fiscal year.

"Our highways are congested," Ma said. "We're not going to be able to put more runways at our airports. The only way to move people around efficiently and effectively is a high-speed rail system like we have in Europe."

A spokeswoman for Schwarzenegger, Sabrina Lockhart, said the Republican governor has other priorities for state bonds, including prisons and flood control, but is willing to consider other ways to pay for high-speed rail, such as private financing..............."

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YouTube - California High-Speed Trains

[Haul Asp]

Your money hard at work.

[battlebot]

I can't see how it will work with so many earthquakes. Plus a large portion of Cali is basically a sea-shelf, what would happen to 10 billion dollars if that shelf happened to shift?

[chrish]

10 billion??? Yeah right.

By 2023, it will be mostly done at a cost of 500 billion and ready for seismic retrofits totaling 750 billion.