Consequences

Less than a week after CA's Legislators voted to shift the meaning of the 1A bonds, The Fresno Bee, July 11, 2012 explains one of the first consequences of Fresno's support for the proposed project.  All the businesses being ripped out to provide rights-of-ways to the proposed HSR currently provide $2.8 million in tax revenue to the city.  In a time of tight budgets, where else is the city of Fresno going to receive nearly $3million of revenue.  A comical statement says the revenue loss is temporary; is that saying the businesses are going to be rebuilt, where: certainly not in the existing rights-of-ways pathway of the proposed HSR which is creating the losses.

WIn-win projects are beneficial for all parties.  The current version of the proposed HSR is a win for the involved consultants, engineering organizations, contractors and labor force; unfortunately everyone else looses.