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California Applies for $4.7 Billion in High-Speed Rail Stimulus Funds

By Matthew Roth | Oct 2, 2009 | 4 Comments

Image: CAHSRA Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger announced today that the state has applied for $4.7 billion in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) stimulus money for the California High Speed Rail Authority (CAHSRA) to start the nation’s most ambitious high speed rail project. In a statement, the governor said, "Recovery Act funding for high-speed rail will […]

CA Transit Operators Win in Court, But Face Challenge by Governor

By Matthew Roth | Jul 2, 2009 | 3 Comments

Photo: rhondawinter A state appellate court in Sacramento ruled two days ago that Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger can’t continue taking money out of the Public Transportation Account (PTA) to help balance the budget, something the governor has done repeatedly while in office, costing state transit operators $1.19 billion in 2007-2008 alone. Many Bay Area transit operators […]

Money or Nothing: Schwarzenegger Joins Call for Infrastructure Investment

By Ryan Avent | Jun 25, 2009 | 1 Comment

Building America’s Future (BAF) is a kind of DreamWorks for the infrastructure set. It’s an organization put together by Govs. Ed Rendell (D-PA) and Arnold Schwarzenegger (R-CA) and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg — men strongly committed to the idea that infrastructure investment is of critical importance for a nation’s economic health, and should […]

Where’s Gavin? Likely Campaigning in an Armored SUV

By Matthew Roth | May 15, 2009 | 4 Comments

Mayor Newsom’s ride of choice, via josmith94701 on Flickr Apparently I’m not the only one who got the sneaky suspicion Green Gav doesn’t really take transit or ride a bike unless it makes for good publicity. Yet-to-be identified satirists decided to call Mayor Gavin Newsom’s bluff on the nonsense assertion he (or his handlers) made […]

Governor Schwarzenegger Finds Another Way to Rob Transit

By Damien Newton | May 15, 2009 | No Comments

Photo: Trinity County California Republican Party This morning when I saw the L.A. Times headline about new budget cuts announced by Governor Schwarzenegger, I wasn’t worried. After all, I knew this time there wasn’t anything else he could do to hurt transportation and transit. How much more damage could be done after he abolished state […]

Gav For Guv Short On Transportation Essentials

By Matthew Roth | Apr 22, 2009 | 8 Comments

Newsom extolling the glories of EVs, from mayorgavinnewsom via Flickr So Gav made it official yesterday that he’s running for Guv by tweeting it to his more than 283,000 followers, announcing it on Facebook, and even running a strange pseudo-article with a lot of donate hyperlinks in the Huffington Post, all of which made a […]

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