To the editor: Whereas I don’t defend the actions of some people for extreme or prohibited journey bills for these concerned in high-speed rail venture, the excellent news is, because of the audit, the state ought to be capable of go after these concerned and reclaim the funds (“High-speed rail authority wasted money on first-class flights, trips to nightclub, report finds,” Sept. 17). The larger image right here is that we’d like high-speed rail in our state.
It’s going to join the Central Valley cities to the bigger financial facilities in San Francisco and L.A. It will open up low-cost housing to hundreds of commuters in Northern and Southern California, and increase native tax revenues from Bakersfield to Merced. It’s going to additionally assist unify our state in methods we by no means have imagined. Anybody who has been lucky to journey abroad, particularly to Japan, would perceive the financial upside.
Can we cease hating on this venture and pull collectively and end it already?
Robert Davis, Tarzana
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To the editor: There may be a simple answer to the funding downside of transit for the Olympics (“L.A. struggling to get Olympics transit money from Sacramento,” Sept. 22). Cancel the high-speed rail venture. Use the funding for that for the native Olympic points over the following few years, after which let the remainder of the state use the funding for a lot of years subsequent to that.
Win, win, win. We cease losing cash on a expensive venture that’s by no means going to be accomplished, we bolster the transit for the Olympics and have long-lasting enhancements within the L.A. space, after which have long-lasting enhancements in the remainder of the state.
Andrew Bressler, Culver Metropolis
