$141 Million In BART Funding for San Jose Extension Gets Dropped From Stimulus Bill
Days after two Republican congressmen from California took potshots at it, a $141 million federal gift to BART has been dropped from the $1.9 trillion stimulus package.
As we reported earlier this week, Republicans latched on to the relatively tiny piece of the stimulus package, $141 million earmarked for BART's project to extend service into downtown San Jose. Rep. Devin Nunes, while speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference over the weekend, called it "a tunnel from Silicon Valley to San Francisco," and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy called it "$140 million for a tunnel near Pelosi's district."