Native Americans since the days of the 17th century French double-dealing claimed the “white man spoke with a forked tongue”. The tradition thrives in California.
Guess what? The one-party Democrat state hawked a law in 2017 to hike gas taxes 12 cents per gallon, 20 cents for diesel, and vehicle registration fees from 25$-125$ for “road repairs”. The state’s electorate confirmed the swindle when it recently rejected the repeal of the hikes in Prop 6. The folks probably thought that they were getting money to address the state’s crumbling, unsafe, and massively congested roadways.
Wait, not so fast. The state’s slick-haired governor, Gavin Newsom, has just issued one of his ukases [executive orders] to siphon off some of the money for “rail”. These lefty Dems can’t resist that totalitarian reflex to order people’s lives down to the minutest detail. So “better roads” has come to mean herding people out of their cars and onto government mass transit. The deception is justified by the all-purpose excuses of “climate change” and “greenhouse gases”. There you have it, Californians: the Iroquios were right.
You can read about it here in the Sacramento Bee.
So, a transportation system that makes sense for densely packed areas (Western Europe, Japan, Bos-Wash) will be foisted on the 3rd largest state in land area. In the meantime, consider your relocation options as you send your daughter out on the increasingly dangerous task to get a gallon of milk.
When you elect zealots, you get ends-justifies-means forked tongues.
RogerG