Sierra Club Endorses Prop 1A (California High-Speed Rail)

[bananas]

http://cahsr.blogspot.com/2008/09/sierra-club-endorses-prop-1a.html

Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Sierra Club Endorses Prop 1A

It's now official - the Sierra Club of California has voted to endorse Proposition 1A. We all knew that high speed rail would provide a major boost to California's efforts to produce environmentally friendly, sustainable, and global warming-fighting policies, and the Sierra Club's endorsement will help communicate that clearly to voters. From their Yes on 1A statement (.doc file) authored by Stuart Cohen of the Transportation and Land Use Coalition:

Sierra Club supports Proposition 1A, which would provide $9.95 billion dollars to catalyze the development of the 800 mile High-Speed Rail (HSR) system, and to make improvements to existing rail networks. Building HSR in California will reinforce our cities as the hubs of our economies, promote sustainable land use, significantly reduce global warming pollution, and get commuters off congested roads and out of crowded airports. While it is an extremely expensive project, adding the same capacity by expanding highways and airports would cost at least twice as much.

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[XemaSab]

1. Either it'll do all that

or it will expand sprawl towards Gilroy, the Pacheco Pass, Los Banos, and Westlands. :banghead: