For Immediate Release, March 9, 2010
For More Information Contact: Carol Chamberlain – Office: (916) 319-2069, Cell: (916) 804-5355
Governor Signs Bill to Clear the Way for OCTA Shovel-Ready Projects
Solorio-Backed Bill Creates 6,000 New Orange County Transportation Jobs
SACRAMENTO, CA – Yesterday, Governor Schwarzenegger signed Solorio-sponsored legislation (AB 11 X8) allowing the California Transportation Commission to sign agreements [...]
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Previously in this series: The Congressional hearings on the Toyota meltdown has been compelling to say the least. As the lady recanted her frightful Mr. Toads Wild Ride…..at over 100 MPH with both feet planted firmly on the brakes. That she couldn’t even turn off the engine until, by itself it slowed to 33 MPH. With both feet on the brakes, mind [...] A little less than 20 years ago, some friends and I stood in front of the Fullerton City Council pleading with the Redevelopment Agency to build a pedestrian underpass at the train station instead of a steel bridge overpass. We had three reasons. The first was expense: an underpass was about half the cost of [...] In case no one has noticed…..the Police vehicles are out in mass lately. Everywhere you go, people are being pulled over and given tickets for even the most minute offenses. The realities are that community, county and state budgets are stressed. Our various police and fire agencies are being encouraged to control their budgets, as [...] “Tough-minded advocate for streamlined efficient government.” We all know that for years the State Legislature and various Governors have used accounting tricks and budgeting gimmicks to produce the annual State budget in what is then billed as “balanced” but really is not. Increasingly this process has included a State raid on funds earmarked by the voters and/or Legislature for local use. Anaheim Mayor Curt Pringle will be making that awful commute up the 5 Freeway this Friday, Oct. 2, to attend a meeting of politicians and other special interests and community stakeholders who are advocating for a high speed rail system that, naturally, will have a depot in Anaheim. Years ago they used to say: “Hell, sell it to the government..they’ll buy anything!” Well, we have bailed out Chrysler and General Motors and evidently have made a committment to “electric hybrid” vehicles. Those batteries are going to be made in Ohio and Michigan, but most likely will all be made in Sichuan Province in [...] A friend of mine tipped me off about an OCTA meeting yesterday where they discussed extending the 57 Freeway. And you thought that was off the table? Nope! May 10th, 1869 the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific Railroads joined together at Promontory Point, Utah celebrating completion of the great American Transcontinental Railroad – something that reduced travel time and invited passengers from the Right Coast to go to the Left Coast. Leland Stanford drove the last ceremonial “golden spike” to commemorate something that had required from inception to [...] |
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