{"id":2407,"date":"2008-03-03T09:28:24","date_gmt":"2008-03-03T17:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=2407"},"modified":"2008-03-03T09:31:31","modified_gmt":"2008-03-03T17:31:31","slug":"californians-could-vote-on-high-speed-rail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2008\/03\/03\/californians-could-vote-on-high-speed-rail\/","title":{"rendered":"Californians Could Vote on High-Speed Rail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=0 src=\"graphics\/listen.gif\"\/> <ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest030308\/2008_03_03_rush.mp3\">Listen to  this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest030308\/2008_03_03_uprising2.mp3\">  the entire program<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=55% src=\"http:\/\/www.geocities.com\/Tokyo\/Island\/2589\/nmt\/500.jpg\" alt=\"bullet train\" \/><em>GUEST: Emily Rush, Calpirg Transportation Advocate<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Two Democratic state lawmakers recently introduced legislation to broaden support for a California high speed rail bond. Plans for a 700 mile rail system to connect Californians from San Diego all the way to San Francisco have faced numerous delays this past decade. Hoping to get the bullet train in motion, the bill authored by Assemblywomen Fiona Ma and Cathleen Galgiani, would diversify allocation of the $9.9 billion rail bonds to be proposed to voters on the November 2008 ballot. Originally, state funding was only set aside for a rail line between LA and San Francisco. Modifications, which may attract voters in the railway&#8217;s other locations, would have the money go to all stops including Oakland, San Jose, and Irvine. Supporters of the project, see it as way to relieve traffic congestion and global warming emissions. It is also expected to improve travel without spending billions on improving roads and highways. If voters approve the bond measure in November, California\u2019s $40 billion network, to be constructed over the course of twenty years, could be the nation\u2019s first.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calpirg.org\">www.calpirg.org<\/a>, or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cahighspeedrail.ca.gov\">www.cahighspeedrail.ca.gov<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| the entire program GUEST: Emily Rush, Calpirg Transportation Advocate Two Democratic state lawmakers recently introduced legislation to broaden support for a California high speed rail bond. Plans for a 700 mile rail system to connect Californians from San Diego all the way to San Francisco have faced numerous delays this past decade. Hoping to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}