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	"author_name": "Californians for Electric Rail",
	"author_url": "https://actionnetwork.org/groups/californians-for-electric-rail",
	"title": "Transit Construction Reform Is Being Scrapped — Speak Out Now!",
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	"description": "🗣️ Join the Task Force meeting virtually here (we will attach the link as soon as we get it) or in-person at the LA Metro Board Room, One Gateway Plaza, 3rd Floor Los Angeles, CA 90012 on June 10th at 10am. 🗣️ California takes way too long and spends way too much to build transit — so the state legislature created the SB 125 Task Force to fix that. But now, they’re at risk of backing down. At the last meeting, committee staff proposed innovative, research-based reforms to make construction more affordable and efficient. But after a constructive conversation, BART’s General Manager angrily stepped in and demanded that staff go back to the drawing board and scrap all of the recommendations put forward. Sadly, this is not the first time BART has killed transit construction reform, having axed project delivery recommendations in 2021 from the Bay Area’s Blue Ribbon Task Force. And now, these reforms have been entirely struck from the agenda because BART doesn’t want to be held accountable for the cost overruns and decades-long delays that plague every major project in this state. Meanwhile: Trump is threatening to slash federal transit funding Tariffs are driving construction costs even higher And California is stuck with a system that takes decades to deliver basic upgrades We CANNOT let these recommendations die without a fight. 🛑 Submit a pre-written public comment using this tool by Tuesday, June 10th. 🗣️ Join the Task Force meeting virtually here (we will attach the link as soon as we get it) or in-person at the LA Metro Board Room, One Gateway Plaza, 3rd Floor Los Angeles, CA 90012 on June 10th at 10am. Tell the Task Force to reinstate capital project delivery reform and include it in the final report to the Legislature. Let them know we see what’s happening — and we won’t stay quiet while agencies kill reform behind closed doors again.",
	"url": "https://actionnetwork.org/letters/transit-construction-reform-is-being-scrapped-speak-out-now"
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