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WA Democrats ask Buttigieg for $200M to plan B.C.-Seattle-Portland bullet train (www.seattletimes.com)
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[โ€“] regul@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, the Bay Area is using CAHSR money to upgrade Caltrain already. That project should be done in a year or two.

What Rendon wanted to do in Socal with Metrolink was to use the money to not do any electrification and use battery-electric trains, which would have been useless.

[โ€“] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 2 points 1 year ago

I agree that battery trains would be useless.