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Most of these (per the PDF) say 500k to the project, which amounts to nothing actually happening for end commuters.
To me it's actually a spit in the face. Like put a lot of funding on a couple projects and see them to fruition. This is a little to a lot, which will do nothing. The idea is to make voters in a lot of areas think something near them is happening, when in actuality, there will likely be little to no progress from this.
That $500k funds study projects. It's a necessary step along the way.
Problem will come in the next steps, though. It needs the states to provide their own funding, and too many of them are red or purple with Republican-controlled legislatures.
We're also pretty used to driving a few hours to go somewhere, so public support will be pretty low in a lot of states.
That’s why you can’t just jump into high speed rail everywhere.
If you read the pdf, you can see that all these projects are places where people will use them, many are places with state funding likely, and most are “improvements”
For example, Boston —> Albany
So this is a great example where people are likely to use, funding is likely, and they’re upgrading from a barely usable service to regular service with multiple times every day.
I don't have a choice out here in flyover country.
Yeah. There's a certain anxiety to it for me. When you can't really easily take public transport it can be really uncomfortable to not have my car.
Yep, like most things moderates actually do, the goal is to make as many people think they're getting help as possible right before an election.
Then they just don't follow thru and all that money they did spend ends up in corporation bank accounts with literally no benefit to anyone.
People in here acting like Biden or other moderates will give two shits about study results, while they're actively ignoring studies on cannabis, healthcare, education, housing and damn near every other major issue they won't fix.
Moderates fucking love studies, because they don't have to actually do anything. But still get the credit as if they did
The comment you are replying to is misinformation. The 500k is for preliminary steps like EIRs. And you are jumping on it to reiterate your preconceived agenda without checking.
The real moderates are the ones who equate both parties at every step. Even against 8 billion of actual funding of an essential government project.
Real question:
After the last three years, why are you still giving Biden credit for saying he'll do something?
Bonus question:
When he's still saying we need more studies on cannabis legalization, healthcare, and raising taxes on the wealthy, why do you think he'll say this study is enough regardless of outcome?
So are you one of those people that wrongly think he hasn't done anything or one of those bright fellows who doesn't understand how Congress works and think he can wave a magic wand and do anything he wants while the GOP obstructs?
Welp, I'm not the person who only posts personal insults, so I got that going for me at least
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