Hey, Asa!
Here's 50 billion dollars in cash that you can only spend on infrastructure repair/building in California.
What do you do with it?
What do you do with it?
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I'll have to actually do some research at some point, but my immediate answer is public transit. $50 billion probably isn't enough (like I said, research needed) but I would greatly expand LA's metro system and build some kind of bullet train that runs from San Diego to San Francisco, and maybe to Las Vegas as well. Anything that has the potential to move California more towards the Northeast corridor model of easy mobility.
Building schools is nice, LA just did it, I don't really know how everybody else is doing.
I'd also pour money into stem cell research, to grab some of that biotech that's fleeing to Asia, but I don't think that counts as infrastructure.
Oh, maybe desalizinization plants. We do have a likely water crisis coming and all.
Yeah, 50 billion -- even in cash -- is probably too little. But, here's my wishlist.
First off, the desalinization plants are a capital idea.
I'd do bullet train from San Diego, to LA, to San Fran.
(I'd love to do LA to Vegas, but it's interstate and that's probably mucho complicated)
I'd add elevated carpool lanes along as much as the 405 in SoCal as possible.
Subway under Wilshire from Downtown to the beach
Subway stops in West Hollywood. (Their city council can suck it on this one)
Create California Border Police to secure the border (we can't build the infrastructure if it's continually taxed by massive population increases)
Mandate that every public-owned, state government-used automobile run on alternate energy.
$1000 tax credit for buying hybrid car.
$2000 tax credit if you're a four person house hold and you only use one car.
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