California voters still support high-speed rail, even if it never gets ...

California voters still support high-speed rail, even if it never gets ...

California Voters Still Clinging To High-Speed Rail Boondoggle Against All Odds

California voters are still hoping for the state’s high-speed rail project to get built despite the fact that it is billions over budget, had its federal support yanked and is years behind schedule, according to Politico. Nearly two-thirds of Golden-State voters support the high-speed rail project despite its crawling progress and the Trump administration recently pulling billions in unspent […] California Voters Still Clinging To High-Speed Rai…

California Voters Still Support High-Speed Rail Despite Setbacks

A new POLITICO‑Citrin Center‑Possibility Lab poll shows that 62% of California voters favor continuing work on the state’s high‑speed rail project between the Bay Area and Los Angeles, even though many doubt it will ever be completed. Support is strongest among Democrats, with 79 % backing the project, compared to 55% of independents and 38% of Republicans. Yet only 27% of Democrats and 23% of Republicans believe the rail line will actually be f…

Californians Continue to Love High-Speed Rail, Even if Republicans in Washington D.C. Don’t - Santa Monica Next

Yesterday, U.S. High Speed Rail, a non-profit advocacy group co-chaired by former Republican Congressman and USDOT Secretary Ray LaHood, released the results of a new poll of California voters. The poll showed that the CA High-Speed Rail project remains popular with California voters. This continues despite non-stop nonsensical attacks from elected officials in the Trump […] The post Californians Continue to Love High-Speed Rail, Even if Republi…

62% of California voters say they want high-speed rail - Global Construction Review

Despite President Trump’s action to cut billions in federal funding for the California High-Speed Rail project, a new poll finds that 62% of registered voters in the state – and 80% of Democrats – support continuing to build what advocacy group US High Speed Rail calls “America’s first solar-powered electric bullet train”. On 16 July, US Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy announced that the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) had terminat…