Arizona GOP lawmakers move to derail chance for Tucson-to-Phoenix commuter train
“People love their personal automobiles. They love the freedom that it entails them, they love the ability to go when they want, where they want, how they want.” - Arizona State Senator Jake Hoffman, who wants to spend a gazillion jillion taxpayer dollars on highways instead.
Arizona GOP lawmakers move to derail chance for Tucson-to-Phoenix commuter train
Stopping Interstate 11 through Arizona.
"Transportation officials face a troubling choice in one of the southernmost sections of the road’s 280-mile route: ramming through populous downtown Tucson to the east, or decimating the fragile Sonoran desert to the west, bulldozing many of the iconic giant cacti where the owls make their nests in the process."
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