Mayor: ‘Doom And Gloom’ Won’t Stop Transportation Funding

February 23, 2011 9:37 AM

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LOS ANGELES (CBS) — Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa asked lawmakers visiting the Southland on Wednesday for help in financing local transportation projects to boost the economy and create jobs.

Villaraigosa testified before Senator Barbara Boxer and other members of Congress in support of a national, bipartisan approach to financing transportation and highway projects.

KNX 1070′s John Brooks reports the mayor wants federal dollars to help launch a floundering high-speed rail project.

The House and Senate Joint Committee on Public Works and Transportation held a meeting at the Brentwood Theatre with a panel of top elected officials and union leaders to determine whether billions in stimulus money should launch the California high-speed rail project.

Villaraigosa predicts that the vast majority of funding would double the size of the state’s transportation system.

While acknowledging the federal government is short on funds, Villaraigosa says that fact creates opportunities for more localities like Los Angeles to partner with Washington.

Mayor: Doom And Gloom Wont Stop Transportation Funding

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Doug

Who really wants this!? I would rather build a wall between southern and northern California! I want nothing to do with the hippie liberals in Berkley or San Francisco.
Tired

Tony Viagra is wrapped too tight, he just going to keep bleeding taxpayers to no end for his own gain.
Bart

While we are building walls, how about one along the Souther border as well! At least mayor Tony has not managed to build his “subway to the sea” fiasco.
swhitS

Total BS. He is in league with the NWO. Bush signed the North American Union the first year he was in office. They want open borders and the Amerio dollar (like the Euro) so they need passage all the way up to Canada. This road is just part and parcel of the plan.
David

Go Mayor we are with you
Robert

Great job Mayor! Go for it. Billions are wasted in Iraq and Afghanistan bombing caves and cavemen. Why not spend billions of our own money on our own people? Traffic is out of control here.

Pendajo

Hundreds of billions wasted
Over war in cave-landistan

Alberto Ticoon

Villaraigoza is just planning to get a big chunck of money before he leaves office. He is one of the biggest crooks that has been in office. I am Latino and I know how crooket he is.