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California stations: Get this one on before November!
Imagine a 220-mile-an-hour train, zipping you from San Francisco to Los Angeles in about two-and-a-half hours. That dream could become reality in November, if voters pass a $10 billion bond to launch a statewide high speed rail system? If approved, it would be the largest public works project in California history.
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California stations: Get this one on before November! Imagine a 220-mile-an-hour train, zipping you from San Francisco to Los Angeles in about two-and-a-half hours. That dream could become reality in November, if voters pass a $10 billion bond to launch a statewide high speed rail system? If approved, it would be the largest public works project in California history.
Broadcast History
Aired twice locally on KQED and KQEI, during "B" segment of Morning edition, 9/22/08
Transcript
AMBI 1 train station sound, lots of people walking fast, can run UNDER till after ACT 2
It?s a commute morning at the CalTrain? station in San Francisco, and thousands of people are making their way onto and off of the big diesel rail cars.
AMBI 2 whoosh of air released
AMBI 3 All aboard!
One of those people in the crowd is San Francisco Assemblywoman Fiona Ma, who looks on the scene like a proud parent.
ACT 1
Once we get the Transbay Terminal up, it?ll really be a busy center. With the trains and the buses, the BART, the MUNI, high speed rail, all of it. I think it?ll be bustling.
If she gets her way, this station will move to the new Transbay Terminal in downtown San Francisco, along with all other mass transit systems - including a new high speed rail service. The terminal is scheduled to break ground by the end of the year... but a key part of th...
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SUGGESTED HOST INTRO: Imagine a 220-mile-an-hour train, zipping you from San Francisco to Los Angeles in about two-and-a-half hours. That dream could become reality in November, if voters pass a $10 billion bond to launch a statewide high speed rail system? If approved, it would be the largest public works project in California history. From KQED in San Francisco, David Gorn reports.
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