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$1+ Billion of Federal Tax Money for 6.7 miles of track

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From: Bill Baker
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1996 00:00
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How do taxpayers in Baltimore feel about the San Francisco Bay Area
Rapid Transit District (BART) asking Congress to spend $1,167,000,000
(that's $1 BILLION+) of your federal tax dollars to build 6.7 miles of
track from Colma, a town with a population of 1,236, where most of the
land is occupied with cemeteries, to San Francisco's Airport?

Do you think the people living in the San Francisco Bay Area can find a 
less expensive way to get to the airport?

Congress says they will give this project $750,000,000 federal tax
dollars (that's $111,940,298.507 of Federal tax dollars spent per mile
of track!).

Can you think of anything else that the Federal government might spend
this $750 MILLION on? Is this pork, in its purest form, or just the
way things are?

Let the world know what you think.Share your ideas and ask questions
about San Francisco's Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) service by posting
messages to the BART TRACKS bulletin board at:

http://www.wmbakerassociates.com/barta.html

http://www.wmbakerassociates.com/wwwboard/wwwboard.html
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From: Bill Baker <bill@wmbakerassociates.com>
Subject: $1+ Billion of Federal Tax Money for 6.7 miles of track
Date: 1996/06/28
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