shoulder a hefty chunk of the cost, but that s not all. los angeles voters also agreed to fund infrastructure projects all across the county. we were at a transportation hearing, and you were there, and you guys were advocating going to the voters and saying, we want to give you a tax, we want to propose a tax to fund infrastructure. this isn t a tax. this is an investment. this will be 40 years and 787,000 jobs. permanent sales tax? a permanent sales tax. the funny thing about this when we polled it, the longer we said it lasted, the more people were willing to vote for it. which is the opposite of anything i ve ever seen before. l.a. voters agreed to help fund not just the purple line extension, they voted to overhaul the entire l.a. metro system. you re saying that the residents of los angeles want to pay for this? absolutely. 71% of the residents of l.a. county, to build not just this line, but 15 rapid transit lines in a single city.
los angeles voters also agreed to fund infrastructure projects all across the county. we were at a transportation hearing, and you were there, and you guys were advocating going to the voters saying we want to give you a tax. we want to propose a tax to fund infrastructure. this isn t a tax. this is an investment. this is 40 years and 787 million jobs. when we pulled it, the longer we said it lasted, the more people were willing to vote for it. that s the opposite of everything i ve ever seen before. l.a. voters agreed to help fund not just the purple line extension. they voted to overhaul the entire l.a. metro system. you re saying that the residents of lank wanted to pay for this? absolutely. 71% of the residents of l.a. county to build not just this line but 15 rapid transit lines in a single city. that s never been done in american history in one place. people know this is not about
time in half. so what are we looking at? so this is going to be the future station. so you got to imagine people coming up and down into the station, and the tunnel coming through. to speed up the schedule, crews are boring tunnels and building statements at the same time. but that comes with a hefty price tag. the budget for the purple line project alone is estimated to be $9 billion. where is the boring machine right now? is it that way? on the other side. it s on the other side. coming this way. when i was down under the hudson river looking at the gateway project, this is what they told me they are dying to have. that s right. and this is the only big project like this in america with federal and local funding. and there s no way we could have done it on our own. the federal government has already ponied up about one-quarter of the money for the purple line extension, more than $2 billion, and has promised even more. the reason? l.a. has skin in the game. local