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Originally Posted by caligrad
With the "Massive budget surplus" we saw, was there no way to use that money to repave street and throw funds towards metro projects in the big cities? We heard about soooo much money but where did all that money go? the stimulus checks didn't even put a dent into it. LA could have done a lot with 10 billion, even if it went all towards LRT.
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They agreed to release $4.2 billion for high-speed rail, and another $10.8 billion for transportation over 4 years. Generally Southern California gets 50-60% of any statewide funding, and LA usually gets 80-90% of Southern California funding, so that may mean around $5 billion or so for Los Angeles.
If there are more surpluses in future years, that could mean more money for LA.
https://sbud.senate.ca.gov/sites/sbu...20Summary3.pdf