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Surface Transportation News #156
Upgrading major arterials for enhanced transit and the China syndrome
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Legislators Push For Gas Tax Increase Instead of Cutting Bloated Bureaucracy
Plans have been introduced to raise $7.4 billion for transportation funding, mostly by raising the gas tax 17 cents a gallon.
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Enhanced Transit and Managed Arterials: A Win-Win Combination
Enhanced bus is more flexible than fixed-rail transit, and can offer comparable service levels when operated either on exclusive rights of way or on virtually exclusive rights of way that are kept uncongested by variable pricing.
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America’s Debt and Deficit
Problems Still Seeking a Presidential Candidate’s Solution
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California’s Proposition 66: Death Penalty Procedures
California’s death penalty system does not work.
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Proposition 65: Dedication of Revenue from Disposable Bag Sales to Wildlife Conservation Fund AND Proposition 67: Plastic Bag Ban Veto Referendum
Prop 67 bans plastic bags and allows stores to charge for other single use bags and pocket the money. Prop 65 says if we do ban plastic bags and allow stores to charge for other bags, that money has to go to an environmental fund.
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California’s Proposition 64: Marijuana Legalization
Prop 64 legalizes possession and use of marijuana by adults 21 or older in California.
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California’s Proposition 63: Background Checks for Ammunition Purchases and Large-Capacity Ammunition Magazine Ban
Prop 63 would clearly violate the 2nd Amendment right to keep and bear arms with a complex and unworkable nest of new regulations and mandates on law enforcement.
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California’s Proposition 62: Repeal of Death Penalty
This measure repeals the death penalty and makes the maximum punishment “life without the possibility of parole.”
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California’s Proposition 61: Drug Price Standards
Prop 61 fails to understands how markets and pricing work and so will most likely lead to fewer drug options and higher prices for Californians—the very opposite of what proponents want to achieve.
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California’s Proposition 60: Condoms in Pornographic Films
Prop 60 looks like a solution in search of a problem.
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California’s Proposition 59: Overturn of Citizens United Act Advisory Question
This ballot measure does nothing to inform the California congressional coalition about the feelings of Californians about Citizens United that could not be accomplished with much less cost and bother by a good poll.
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California’s Proposition 58: Non-English Languages Allowed in Public Education
A flexible but accountable approach, as Prop 58 provides, is what is needed.
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California’s Proposition 57: Parole for Non-Violent Criminals and Juvenile Court Trial Requirements
Prop 57 takes a sensible approach to dealing with overcrowding in California prisons and avoiding court-ordered releases of prisoners, but makes a crucial error in not defining the specific offenses it would address.
