Resolution Asking Full Speed Ahead for California High

							Resolution Asking Full Speed Ahead for California High Speed Rail

WHEREAS, California’s population is growing steadily each year –
with a projected increase of almost 50 percent by 2050 -- requiring a
great increase in transportation options-- and while construction and
operation of High Speed Rail will cost much less per passenger than the
great expansion of freeways and airports that would otherwise be
required, and

WHEREAS, High Speed Rail was first proposed in California in 1980
and is in successful operation in major nations throughout the world, and
California cannot afford further delay in High Speed Rail construction
knowing that annual increases in inflation greatly boost the cost, as we
have found in delays in Bay Area bridge construction, and

WHEREAS, High Speed Rail will carry passengers faster and more
comfortably for a lower fare from northern to southern California – and
in other nations, airlines have been shown to consume four times as
much energy per passenger seat as High Speed Rail – and automobiles
six times as much, while airplanes’ air-polluting CO-2 emissions are five
times as much as that of High Speed Rail and automobiles eight times as
much, now

THEREFORE, the San Francisco Democratic Party asks that California
elected officials vote to provide an adequate High Speed Rail budget in
the coming year to move ahead with engineering and environmental
work, with the goal of giving us High Speed Rail at the earliest possible
date.


Submitted by Jane Morrison, Connie O’Connor, Susan Hall, Scott
Wiener, and Dan Dunnigan, and adopted at the February 27, 2008,
meeting of the San Francisco Democratic County Central Committee