Governor Gavin Newsom signed a law giving the California High-Speed Rail Authority eminent domain power
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About time. All these years and billions wasted goofing around with property rights when we desperately need better infrastructure that doesn't rely on cars.
Especially if it's a farm that is over 50% export.
Oh so you want those cows in saudi arabia to starve then? Because that's what's gonna happen if we don't let our brave farmers dump thousands of gallons of water on to a desert to make alfalfa.
Yes, I do.
worse: they gave those rights to people building highways decades ago
That's gonna be a long ass data center.
I wouldn't be so upset if the whole track was covered in solar panels to power a data center
What? No! You wait for the train like its a Disney waterpark... No shoes, the floor is tar covered in burnt ketchup stains with absolutely no cover under the full sun. The entire ride - No AC. But each ride is $200 bucks thanks. Lol.
Where a black neighborhood used to be.
I hope it goes thru LaJolla CA. They really need transportation.
Just not Dr. Seuess' house, please. That should be a museum, with the Morse children banned.
Guess he weighed his options. He’s trying to piss off the left and tack right for his presidential run, and this move would piss off the right, but he can go into 2028 showing off a big infra project and his “I get shit done” bona fides
He had nearly a decade to get this project done. He didn’t
While also screwing over poors who can't afford current housing prices but paid off their current homes.
He's gonna seize land, not use it for this, and then "sell" at rock bottom prices to developers....
That's not fair. He's a conservative. He has no choice.
yeah, you know build developments on a rail corridor 150 feet wide for hundreds of miles.
Now do that to the water
If this is truly the reason for this bill I'm not sure there is any other way.
Is this still being built?
Why do I remember this being about oil?