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When President Trump pledged during the campaign to spend $1 trillion to restore Americas crumbling bridges and roads, supporters across the country cheered.
A leaked list of the Trump administrations priority projects seemed to speak to the scope of the presidents ambitions: a high-speed rail line linking Houston and Dallas; a desalination plant in Orange County, Calif.; and improvements to the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway in Louisiana, the longest continuous bridge over water in the world.
Then came Mr. Trumps budget proposal, which would slash the Department of Transportations spending by 13 percent, end subsidies for Amtraks long-distance trains and eliminate the Obama administrations Tiger grant program, which has helped fund mass transit systems across the country.
Among the potential victims of the presidents proposed cutbacks: Marylands long-awaited Purple Line, a planned 16-mile light rail system through the capitals suburbs.
Maryland had been just four days away from clinching some $900 million in federal aid in August when a federal judge ruled to temporarily invalidate environmental approvals for the project. But under President Trumps plan, projects that dont yet have complete federal funding agreements would be financed by the localities that use and benefit from these localized projects.
Supporters of the project are devastated.
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Beartracks
(12,816 posts)... "If it sounds too good to be true...'
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angrychair
(8,705 posts)Literally...
Rollo
(2,559 posts)Jay Gould's daughter said before she died.
Papa, fix the blinds so the bums can't ride.
If ride they must, they got to ride the rod.
Let 'em put their trust in the hands of God.
In the hands of God.
In the hands of God.
Let them put their trust in the hands of God
Was she named Ivanka?