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		<title>Big News: Obama&#8217;s California Bullet Train Is Still on Track</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week’s most important story was not the jobs numbers or the heat, but the California legislature’s close partisan vote to go ahead with its controversial high-speed rail line, a $68 billion bullet train designed to connect San Francisco to Los Angeles in under three hours. The mega-project still faces political, logistical and financial uncertainties, but it now has a path to construction—and as I’ve written, once construction starts it will be tough to stop. That’s a big deal for President Obama and the high-speed rail program he launched in his 2009 stimulus bill. (Yes, I know, I’m predictable.) The California project is Obama’s last chance to launch real high-speed rail, and having it scuttled would have been an embarrassment as well as a disappointment. (PHOTOS: The World&#8217;s Longest Railroad Tunnel) The high-speed program was mostly about higher-speed rail, not just 200 m.p.h. bullet trains, and it’s already promoting faster and more reliable train service in 31 states. But Obama has hyped the program as a chance for Americans to experience the wow machines that are already whipping travelers around Europe and Asia. A planned Tampa-to-Orlando bullet train was supposed to be under construction by now, but Florida Governor Rick Scott, a Tea Party Republican, killed it after taking office. (GOP governors also killed a worthy project in Wisconsin and a dubious project in Ohio.) The California plan is not as shovel-ready as Florida’s—the route for the first 130 miles of track through the Central Valley hasn’t even been finalized—but it has the support of Democratic Governor Jerry Brown. Like electric cars, solar power, and other stimulus-funded causes, high-speed rail was once bipartisan; former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is an avid supporter, as are local Republicans like Fresno Mayor Ashley Swearingen. But ever since high-speed rail became an Obama priority, Washington Republicans have turned against it en masse. House Government Operations Chairman Darrell Issa has vowed to investigate the California project, and his fellow California Republican, Jeff Denham, wants to strip its funding. There was no new high-speed cash this<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=73765&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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