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Mr Diridon, chairman emeritus of the California High Speed Rail Authority, was addressing like-minded folk at the annual meeting of the Midwest High Speed Rail Association.
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Remarkably, this estimate is 40 to 60% higher than the 3.1 million ton reduction the California High Speed Rail Authority (CHSRA) originally claimed in 2008 for the entire plan, including extensions to Sacramento and San Diego.
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The train is the most environmental form of transportsation, outpacing planes and cars (nice to see California going high-speed rail, every state should).
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The project's godfather is Democratic Congressman Jim Costa, who as a state senator in the 1990s wrote legislation creating California's High-Speed Rail Authority and helped plan the 500-mile route between San Francisco and Anaheim.
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David Crane, Special Advisor to the Governor and Chair, High Speed Rail Commission, California.
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The problem in making the case for high-speed rail in California is that, though it is the most populous state in the union, there are simply not enough people packed into the 50-mile wide coastal strip that wends its way 350 miles from Los Angeles to San Francisco.
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These subsidies distort priorities, which helps explain why California votes to spend money it doesn't have for a high-speed rail it can't afford.
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As such, only two projects in the Obama administration's once-vaunted high-speed rail agenda are moving forward one in California and one in the Northeast Corridor.
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Obama pours borrowed or seized funds into boondoggles like subsidies for toy electric cars that blow up like Spinal Tap drummers and high-speed rail for the 12 people who want to take trains in California, and allows the federal workforce to grow by over 100, 000 bodies.
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The biggest such change is to transfer day-to-day operations from the High-Speed Rail Authority (HSRA), set up to oversee the project, to the California Department of Transportation.
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