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ESTIMATED
COST:
$2.4 billion.
$1.2
BILLION
in bond proceeds, w/ bonds
backed by railroad use fees.
$400
MILLION
loan from U.S. Dept.
of Transportation.
$394
MILLION
in grants from ports of
L.A. and Long Beach.
$347
MILLION
administered by L.A. County
Metropolitan Transportation
Authority.
$154
MILLION
in other state and federal
sources and interest income.
Not that anyone in the media
would ever dare
to question it.
Railway-Technology Does Alameda
Wash. Post Does Alameda Corridor
5/21/02
China
Conservation
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A project designed to clean up the tangled,
mess of
railroad lines leading out of San Pedro Bay's port facilities.
It had the potential to
radically alter the future of Los Angeles. Unfortunately,
it was under-funded, as California's
Congressional delegation spent more time financing
the Turk, Israeli and Egyptian welfare plans. No
subway line was included in the project, but
extra car lanes were added to the adjacent roads.
No
new zoning was done by the local city
councils to encourage high-rise construction.
Instead of a serious solution to the area's sprawl problem,
we wound up w/ a slightly improved way to ship products to
and from a Chinese, communist regime that has threatened
to nuke' Los Angeles over the Taiwan dispute.
Wrong To Start With
I got the graphic below from acta.org.
Note the caption's "primary
purpose."
It should have said "to provide affordable mass transit
and housing in addition to cleaning up the railroad mess."
A testament to modern
engineering, the Mid-Corridor Trench is the most
prominent feature of the Alameda Corridor rail expressway project.
The
primary purpose of the trench is to reduce delays and congestion
along
the corridor and on roadways by eliminating street-level
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