Posted Feb 26, 2021, 7:44 PM
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Republicans are really mad about BART getting $112 million in COVID-19 stimulus bill
Eric Ting
Feb. 25, 2021
The House version of Biden administration's $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill contains funding for BART's planned expansion into San Jose and Santa Clara — and congressional Republicans are not happy about it.
An analysis from Fox Business found that the expansion — long-planned but lacking funding — will be receiving $112 million in federal funds, and transportation officials told the San Francisco Chronicle the figure would actually be closer to $141 million (SFGATE and the San Francisco Chronicle are both owned by Hearst but operate independently of one another).
Twitter accounts for House and Senate Republicans began referring to the project as "Pelosi's Subway" in tweets railing against the legislation. Individual lawmakers also got in on the act.
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BART will also be receiving $77 million to expand the Transbay Tube’s capacity, and the bill contains a total of $30 billion for transit agencies across the country.
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Democrats have argued that the public transit funding is directly tied to the pandemic because low levels of ridership have placed agencies in financial peril and in need of federal relief.
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https://www.sfgate.com/politics/arti...P-15980031.php
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