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[quote user="daveklepper"] Maybe this is the thread to make the suggestion:  In the event of cancillation of a state funded rail projects, why cannot the effected communities that really want and are willing to help pay for the service form a transportation authority, vote to pay the necessary taxes, real-estate/added-value on purchases, parking, and apply for the Federal funds and take over the project? [/quote] The short answer is most major cities in the U.S. are in deep financial trouble.  For some their balance sheet looks worse than their state government's and the federal government's.  More than 1/3rd of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) monies went to cities or their school systems in an attempt to bail them out of the travails brought on by the recession.
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