BOB2 Wrote:
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> SB-1 contained significant transit funding. Mouse
> is a troll who likes to spew a lot of horse crap.
> While Hutch apparently doesn't bother to read what
> he's voting on. And, Ken and John (like Mouse...)
> think it's all part of the "vast" conspiracy...
>
> While not a fan of some of the goofier crap like
> the vast taxpayer funded contractor "slop trough"
> and bloated gold plated cluster-f##k at the
> CAHSRA, or of neglecting our roads, the transit
> funding was included in the measure, and it
> passed. The current budget choices, driven by
> them awful folks in those gridlocked big cities,
> simply had the votes in the legislature (for
> better or worse...) to "front load" the transit
> projects near term, which has delayed things like
> the 99 project.
>
> This is a rail discussion site. And, the
> political choice (and tradeoff in the budget
> compromise) was build the LAUPT run-through
> (number one cost benefit rail commute and IC rail
> investment in the US) by 2028, or adding a lane in
> a 99 rebuild by 2028.... LAUPT had the votes, and
> 99 didn't. So, of course, Mouse hates it.....


FTR I voted against the gas tax. And every BS tax increase in this state.