Gavin Newsom: “You have the existing infrastructure in place. That's about…”

“… you make in the critique, and get to Fresno, for example, to Gilroy where Caltran is. And we can, we can then connect to San Jose and into San Francisco. You have the existing infrastructure in place. That's about an hour. You get into Palmdale. Now you're connecting with the new Bright Line, that's going all the way to Vegas and one of the fastest growing parts of the state in Palmdale where middle class families can still afford a home. And so those are component parts. And that's where I think that $36 million billion dollars number came from. Those three component parts roughly add up to that now, the Tehachapi Mountains, getting them over all of those larger issues.” (53:07–53:22)

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