John Duarte: “Our high speed rails goes from Merced in my district of…”

“That's cutting up my farms, that's cutting up my district's highways, that's giant concrete platforms raised way above our railway, above our freeways, disconnected from each other. Our high speed rails goes from Merced in my district of about 90,000 people. If we stretch a bit, the city of Merced down to Bakersfield when finished, which is about 400,000 people, travels through the city of Fresno, the largest city in that corridor at half a million people. There are no current engineering plans for the high speed rail, the California high speed rail project, to go over the Tehachapis to reach Los Angeles.” (02:19–02:37)

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