Politics & Government

Huff Takes His Message on the High Speed Rail to Youtube

Voters were promised a high speed train that would whisk passengers from San Francisco to San Diego for half the cost of airfare but this is not what the voters are getting, Huff said.

Senate Republican Leader Bob Huff (R-Diamond Bar) is reacting to the news of the passage of SB 1029, to begin the financing and construction of California’s High Speed Rail system in his Capitol Comment for the week of July 2.

Huff may supports the concept of high speed rail, but he said he has nothing but contempt for the current business plan.

“Voters were promised a high speed train that would whisk passengers from San Francisco to San Diego for half the cost of airfare,” he said. But this is not what the voters are getting, he said.

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Instead the business plan spends billions on the construction of a high speed rail test track in the least populated areas of California and contains little if any improvements to rail corridors that serve high population areas such as Los Angeles and San Francisco, the senator wrote.

Check out the video to hear him speak.

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