OPINION
Gavin Newsom ditching California high-speed rail shows why 'Green New Deal' is doomed
by Philip Klein
February 12, 2019 04:05 PM
The decision by Gov. Gavin Newsom, a dedicated progressive, to curtail California's high-speed rail project over cost concerns is a sign that the "Green New Deal" is doomed.
The creation of a vast high-speed rail network is just one small part of the massive overhaul the "Green New Deal" contemplates for transportation, energy, healthcare, education, agriculture, housing, and a host of other issues. Yet now it's gone down in flames in a state that previously voted for it, and in which liberals have overwhelming control of government.
The California high-speed rail project started when residents approved a ballot measure in 2008 for what was supposed to be a $40 billion project linking the Los Angeles, Sacramento, and San Francisco areas. The project received a boost from President Barack Obama's economic stimulus legislation. Obama had made high-speed rail a central part of his vision for " winning the future" in his 2011 State of the Union, envisioning linking 80 percent of the country by high-speed rail within 25 years. When Republicans in Ohio, Wisconsin, and Florida rejected high-speed rail money, it got shifted into the California project, which was supposed to be an example to the rest of the country.
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