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>From MSM@MIT-ML Sun Jun 27 11:57:20 1982
MSM@MIT-ML 06/27/82 14:29:43 Re: Calif. Transportation Commission favors highways.
To: railroad at MIT-MC
>From the San Francisco Chronicle of 26 June '82:

PANEL FAVORS ROADS OVER BUSSES, TRAINS

Sacramento

   A five-year capital spending program for transportation in California,
oriented toward highways rather than mass transit, was approved yesterday by
the State Transportation COmmission.

   It was a defeat for Governor Brown's transportation director, Adriana 
Gianturco, who had recommended more emphasis on bicycles, buses and trains,
and less on highways.

   The plan calls for a capital outlay of $4.96 Billion, with $4.35 billion
allocated to highways, $592 million to mass transit, and $14 million for 
aeronautics.

   The largest single highway project affected by the decision is the 
$1 billion Century Freeway in Los Angeles, the last major link in
California's interstate highway network.

   Adoption of a State Transportation Improvement Program is an annual task of
the commission.  The document projects spending for transportation projects in
California for the next five years.

   This year's five-year projection has been watched closely because it is the
first dealing with the more than $2 billion expected in new revenues
generated by an increase in gasoline taxes next year.

						[United Press]

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