1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:03,480 Speaker 1: And we continue at two oh five in the afternoon 2 00:00:03,600 --> 00:00:07,000 Speaker 1: on The John Phillips Show, broadcasting live from our sister 3 00:00:07,120 --> 00:00:12,440 Speaker 1: station KMJAY in Fresno. Mister Randy Weggs in Culver City. 4 00:00:12,320 --> 00:00:15,720 Speaker 2: John, residents in the city of Claremont in San Diego 5 00:00:15,800 --> 00:00:19,200 Speaker 2: County have had enough. They are putting up signs saying 6 00:00:19,360 --> 00:00:25,320 Speaker 2: no parking for people living in those ADUs. 7 00:00:25,720 --> 00:00:30,360 Speaker 1: Yeah, you see. I know that Sacramento wants high density 8 00:00:30,440 --> 00:00:34,720 Speaker 1: housing in California, but one of the byproducts of that 9 00:00:35,080 --> 00:00:38,559 Speaker 1: is that there is no parking because no one's going 10 00:00:38,640 --> 00:00:42,200 Speaker 1: to ride public transit until it's clean and safe. That's 11 00:00:42,240 --> 00:00:44,960 Speaker 1: never going to happen with these people in charge. So 12 00:00:45,040 --> 00:00:49,800 Speaker 1: that means that everyone has to fight over limited parking. Yep. 13 00:00:50,840 --> 00:00:53,800 Speaker 2: Not to mention, you have cities like San Diego that 14 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:57,520 Speaker 2: give you a bonus as a developer if you build 15 00:00:57,520 --> 00:00:59,840 Speaker 2: an apartment building with no parking. 16 00:01:01,480 --> 00:01:04,520 Speaker 1: Eight hundred two two two five two two two is 17 00:01:04,560 --> 00:01:08,000 Speaker 1: the telephone number one eight hundred two two two five 18 00:01:08,120 --> 00:01:12,959 Speaker 1: two two two. Here with an update on California's fictional 19 00:01:13,200 --> 00:01:15,679 Speaker 1: high speed rail. Mister Randy Waning the. 20 00:01:15,800 --> 00:01:18,720 Speaker 2: California High Speed Rail says that you're going to be 21 00:01:18,760 --> 00:01:23,120 Speaker 2: able to ride that train from Wasco to Merced by 22 00:01:23,240 --> 00:01:26,240 Speaker 2: twenty thirty three, and if they can get the funding, 23 00:01:26,760 --> 00:01:30,000 Speaker 2: it's possible they could have you riding from San Francisco 24 00:01:30,120 --> 00:01:37,479 Speaker 2: to Los Angeles by twenty thirty nine. I don't think 25 00:01:37,520 --> 00:01:41,679 Speaker 2: anybody believes that. No, when was the whole thing supposed 26 00:01:41,720 --> 00:01:46,119 Speaker 2: to be completed twenty twenty? When people voted on Measure 27 00:01:46,200 --> 00:01:50,600 Speaker 2: one A in two thousand and eight, The bond measure 28 00:01:50,720 --> 00:01:54,560 Speaker 2: said this thing would cost thirty billion dollars and would 29 00:01:54,560 --> 00:02:00,800 Speaker 2: be fully operational from San Francisco to Los Angeles by 30 00:02:00,920 --> 00:02:09,920 Speaker 2: twenty twenty. Anyway, CASERA finally is able to sit down 31 00:02:10,080 --> 00:02:13,760 Speaker 2: with Ian Chowdry, the CEO of high speed Rail, although 32 00:02:13,800 --> 00:02:17,480 Speaker 2: notably they wouldn't talk to Ashley Savalla more. Of course, 33 00:02:17,800 --> 00:02:20,960 Speaker 2: for more on this, here is CASEYRA three in Sacramento. 34 00:02:22,760 --> 00:02:25,480 Speaker 3: The California High Speed Rail project has been plagued by 35 00:02:25,520 --> 00:02:28,040 Speaker 3: delays and cost overruns for years. 36 00:02:28,480 --> 00:02:28,760 Speaker 4: Now. 37 00:02:28,960 --> 00:02:31,240 Speaker 3: Leaders hope to have riders on the mer Said to 38 00:02:31,280 --> 00:02:33,800 Speaker 3: Bakersfield section within seven years. 39 00:02:35,200 --> 00:02:42,760 Speaker 1: Sure, anyone willing to take bets on that? Because if 40 00:02:42,800 --> 00:02:45,040 Speaker 1: there is, there's free money on Calshi. 41 00:02:45,680 --> 00:02:48,880 Speaker 2: Wait now, I'm going to look this up. Calashi California 42 00:02:50,040 --> 00:02:55,000 Speaker 2: High Speed Rail. There has to be on here, right, Okay, 43 00:02:55,480 --> 00:03:00,799 Speaker 2: there is an actual Calshie. Will a huge human land 44 00:03:00,840 --> 00:03:05,480 Speaker 2: on Mars before California starts high speed rail? 45 00:03:08,919 --> 00:03:10,600 Speaker 1: And what are the betting ods right now? 46 00:03:11,520 --> 00:03:15,240 Speaker 2: Let's see the betting odds if you think that it 47 00:03:15,320 --> 00:03:19,440 Speaker 2: will happen before twenty fifty Yes, is thirty five cents, 48 00:03:19,480 --> 00:03:22,119 Speaker 2: No is seventy one cents. I don't actually understand how 49 00:03:22,160 --> 00:03:24,800 Speaker 2: calshy works, That's all I can tell you right there. 50 00:03:25,360 --> 00:03:28,320 Speaker 1: So the betting gods say it is not going to 51 00:03:28,360 --> 00:03:29,800 Speaker 1: be done by twenty thirty five. 52 00:03:30,440 --> 00:03:33,120 Speaker 2: Yes, the betting ods say that it is more likely 53 00:03:33,200 --> 00:03:38,520 Speaker 2: that Elon will get his man on Mars before anyone 54 00:03:38,760 --> 00:03:41,040 Speaker 2: rides the California High Speed Rail. 55 00:03:41,840 --> 00:03:43,040 Speaker 1: I think that's about right. 56 00:03:44,040 --> 00:03:46,560 Speaker 3: And the plan promised to voters San Francisco to Los 57 00:03:46,600 --> 00:03:50,920 Speaker 3: Angeles potentially by twenty thirty nine, but with no money 58 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:54,520 Speaker 3: identified for LA to San Francisco, some lawmakers question how 59 00:03:54,520 --> 00:03:56,120 Speaker 3: the project can even move forward. 60 00:03:56,520 --> 00:03:58,240 Speaker 2: Oh don't you worry there's going to be all that 61 00:03:58,400 --> 00:03:59,480 Speaker 2: private investment. 62 00:04:00,160 --> 00:04:04,360 Speaker 1: Oh yeah yeah, private investors take one look at this 63 00:04:04,480 --> 00:04:06,400 Speaker 1: and they go, you know what, I want a piece 64 00:04:06,440 --> 00:04:09,280 Speaker 1: of that sweet action. Well, one of the things that 65 00:04:09,320 --> 00:04:12,200 Speaker 1: they have talked about is okay, well, maybe what we 66 00:04:12,280 --> 00:04:14,240 Speaker 1: need to do, because we already need to figure out 67 00:04:14,280 --> 00:04:17,120 Speaker 1: how to power the high speed rail, is all along 68 00:04:17,160 --> 00:04:19,560 Speaker 1: the rail line in the middle of the state where 69 00:04:19,560 --> 00:04:22,120 Speaker 1: there really isn't anything. We're going to build a whole 70 00:04:22,160 --> 00:04:24,719 Speaker 1: bunch of solar farms and then we can sell some 71 00:04:24,839 --> 00:04:29,919 Speaker 1: of that energy to data centers. Here's the problem, Johnny, 72 00:04:30,040 --> 00:04:33,080 Speaker 1: what did we find out about six days ago? Happens 73 00:04:33,120 --> 00:04:37,640 Speaker 1: to solar farms sometimes if they get lit on fire, 74 00:04:37,880 --> 00:04:40,400 Speaker 1: you have a real big problem on your hands. 75 00:04:41,279 --> 00:04:44,920 Speaker 3: Aside from those concerns, this year, the project's CEO was 76 00:04:45,040 --> 00:04:49,760 Speaker 3: arrested and faced a state investigation. Ian Childry was arrested 77 00:04:49,800 --> 00:04:53,279 Speaker 3: in a domestic incident that resulted in no charges. He 78 00:04:53,400 --> 00:04:55,960 Speaker 3: was also placed on administrative leave after it was made 79 00:04:56,000 --> 00:04:58,760 Speaker 3: public that his fiance works for a company that was 80 00:04:58,800 --> 00:05:00,839 Speaker 3: awarded a contract with the high speed rail. 81 00:05:01,120 --> 00:05:02,080 Speaker 2: Nothing to see here. 82 00:05:02,880 --> 00:05:05,200 Speaker 1: I wouldn't know who hit who. 83 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:09,400 Speaker 2: I think the fiance hit him, or hit the child, 84 00:05:09,440 --> 00:05:12,000 Speaker 2: hit the teenager that's living with them because there was 85 00:05:12,040 --> 00:05:14,000 Speaker 2: a juvenile involved. 86 00:05:14,080 --> 00:05:16,440 Speaker 1: Or maybe it's just a battle royal and everyone got 87 00:05:16,440 --> 00:05:17,320 Speaker 1: a piece of the action. 88 00:05:18,040 --> 00:05:21,080 Speaker 3: Chowdrey was cleared and is back to work on the project. 89 00:05:21,520 --> 00:05:24,159 Speaker 3: We've been asking to sit down with Chowdrey for months, 90 00:05:24,240 --> 00:05:26,279 Speaker 3: but he was hesitant to talk about any of it 91 00:05:26,640 --> 00:05:27,560 Speaker 3: until now. 92 00:05:27,839 --> 00:05:31,400 Speaker 2: Well, and specifically, when Ashley asked for an interview, He's like, 93 00:05:31,480 --> 00:05:35,520 Speaker 2: I don't want to talk about the domestic Oh, you know. 94 00:05:35,520 --> 00:05:38,880 Speaker 1: How much I would love to conduct that interview. I'd 95 00:05:38,880 --> 00:05:41,839 Speaker 1: be fair, I'd be impartial, and I'd stick to the facts. 96 00:05:42,560 --> 00:05:48,760 Speaker 1: I wouldn't get involved in anything salacious. Mister Chowdrey. It's 97 00:05:48,800 --> 00:05:51,960 Speaker 1: my understanding there was a domestic incident that happened to 98 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:57,200 Speaker 1: your house. If let's just say, you hit your wife, 99 00:05:57,520 --> 00:06:04,159 Speaker 1: did she have it coming? I shouldn't be laughing at that. 100 00:06:04,760 --> 00:06:07,159 Speaker 3: This week, Jason Marx met with him at a project 101 00:06:07,200 --> 00:06:10,120 Speaker 3: site about where the high speed rail moves from here. 102 00:06:10,400 --> 00:06:11,520 Speaker 3: Here's part of their conversation. 103 00:06:13,880 --> 00:06:17,000 Speaker 4: So it's moving along, It is moving along. I'm super excited. 104 00:06:19,320 --> 00:06:21,839 Speaker 1: Sure you are. Yeah, we can tell. 105 00:06:22,680 --> 00:06:25,479 Speaker 5: Look, all our design concepts now are in line with 106 00:06:25,600 --> 00:06:27,680 Speaker 5: what the Europeans and the Japanese have done. 107 00:06:28,520 --> 00:06:31,679 Speaker 2: We're finally on the same level of design as things 108 00:06:31,720 --> 00:06:34,359 Speaker 2: that the Japanese figured out sixty years ago. 109 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:37,040 Speaker 1: Yeah, well, so did Walt Disney. 110 00:06:38,560 --> 00:06:40,920 Speaker 5: This took us a bit, took us about a year 111 00:06:41,080 --> 00:06:43,680 Speaker 5: to like a streamline all the processes we were doing, 112 00:06:44,040 --> 00:06:45,480 Speaker 5: optimize as much as he can. 113 00:06:46,440 --> 00:06:48,320 Speaker 2: Now, this guy's only been in charge for the last 114 00:06:48,360 --> 00:06:50,760 Speaker 2: couple of years. It was, you know, a bunch of 115 00:06:50,880 --> 00:06:54,080 Speaker 2: hacks form the ex state legislature that we're running this 116 00:06:54,080 --> 00:06:55,000 Speaker 2: thing beforehand. 117 00:06:55,760 --> 00:06:59,159 Speaker 5: My goal is really is to let public see we 118 00:06:59,240 --> 00:06:59,880 Speaker 5: can build it. 119 00:07:00,320 --> 00:07:02,800 Speaker 4: We'd run the trains and then we go build more. 120 00:07:04,279 --> 00:07:08,600 Speaker 1: Okay, Golden gloves, Why is it that you're still claiming 121 00:07:08,640 --> 00:07:12,880 Speaker 1: that it's going to take until twenty thirty nine for 122 00:07:13,120 --> 00:07:16,520 Speaker 1: any of us to ride from LA to San Francisco, 123 00:07:16,920 --> 00:07:19,960 Speaker 1: which is what we were promised by twenty twenty. 124 00:07:20,360 --> 00:07:24,240 Speaker 2: Well, we still haven't laid down any track. Kind of 125 00:07:24,280 --> 00:07:26,720 Speaker 2: need that to get this thing all going. 126 00:07:29,080 --> 00:07:32,040 Speaker 5: We had public had lost some confidence in the program 127 00:07:32,080 --> 00:07:33,920 Speaker 5: because of the reasons we spoke about earlier. 128 00:07:34,680 --> 00:07:37,480 Speaker 2: Just some confidence. Who's still confident about this? 129 00:07:37,960 --> 00:07:42,280 Speaker 1: You know, we had some minor setbacks, But if we. 130 00:07:42,240 --> 00:07:44,840 Speaker 5: Talked more to the people and let them understand what 131 00:07:44,960 --> 00:07:48,440 Speaker 5: happened and what's going to happen next, then I think 132 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:51,440 Speaker 5: the public sup words will continue. 133 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:52,800 Speaker 6: And I'm not here to ask you about the incident 134 00:07:52,840 --> 00:07:55,520 Speaker 6: a couple months ago. But do you regret not going 135 00:07:55,520 --> 00:07:58,679 Speaker 6: to the governor's office in letting them know what took place? 136 00:07:58,760 --> 00:08:01,720 Speaker 1: Now, wait a minute, Wait a minute, Wait a minute. 137 00:08:01,880 --> 00:08:04,360 Speaker 1: I'm not here to ask you about the incident that 138 00:08:04,400 --> 00:08:07,200 Speaker 1: happened a couple of weeks ago. Why not. 139 00:08:09,440 --> 00:08:15,120 Speaker 2: Because that was the only way that Chowdry is getting 140 00:08:15,280 --> 00:08:18,280 Speaker 2: agreeing to doing this interview. So the way that you 141 00:08:18,360 --> 00:08:20,320 Speaker 2: ask it, it says, I'm not going to ask about it. 142 00:08:20,360 --> 00:08:25,880 Speaker 1: But okay, if we don't have a high speed trained 143 00:08:25,880 --> 00:08:28,280 Speaker 1: to ride, at least can we find out who took 144 00:08:28,320 --> 00:08:30,280 Speaker 1: a still chair shot to the head. 145 00:08:31,040 --> 00:08:34,720 Speaker 5: I am focused on this program. This is really what 146 00:08:34,840 --> 00:08:36,440 Speaker 5: I'm trying to talk. 147 00:08:36,559 --> 00:08:38,640 Speaker 2: Well, even though this guy is not a politician, he 148 00:08:38,760 --> 00:08:41,920 Speaker 2: sure sounds like one. You know, there's a phrase that 149 00:08:42,040 --> 00:08:46,800 Speaker 2: no human being outside of politics ever uses. I'm focused on. 150 00:08:49,280 --> 00:08:51,720 Speaker 1: Yeah, you don't really hear that from a barber, do you. 151 00:08:52,160 --> 00:08:55,000 Speaker 2: That is something that you were trained to say when 152 00:08:55,040 --> 00:08:57,040 Speaker 2: you do not want to answer a question. 153 00:08:57,920 --> 00:09:01,600 Speaker 5: I am focused on this program. This is really what 154 00:09:01,720 --> 00:09:03,640 Speaker 5: I'm trying to talk about. 155 00:09:03,920 --> 00:09:06,440 Speaker 1: And by the way, of course, he's not focused on it. 156 00:09:06,480 --> 00:09:08,360 Speaker 1: If he was focused on it, then we'd have a 157 00:09:08,400 --> 00:09:11,319 Speaker 1: train to ride. But guess what we don't. 158 00:09:11,480 --> 00:09:14,880 Speaker 5: And communicate with the administration, with the legislatures all I'll 159 00:09:14,920 --> 00:09:17,800 Speaker 5: continue to do what I'm here to do with just 160 00:09:17,840 --> 00:09:20,359 Speaker 5: to build this program. 161 00:09:19,960 --> 00:09:20,720 Speaker 4: As fast as we can. 162 00:09:20,760 --> 00:09:23,640 Speaker 1: Are you concerned about Guess what? He's not focused on 163 00:09:23,679 --> 00:09:26,199 Speaker 1: that train, He's focused on fight night in the den. 164 00:09:27,200 --> 00:09:30,760 Speaker 6: The image that maybe you're not being transparent in such 165 00:09:30,800 --> 00:09:33,640 Speaker 6: a major, high profile project. 166 00:09:34,160 --> 00:09:39,240 Speaker 5: Look if somebody can come and tell us what is 167 00:09:39,280 --> 00:09:43,520 Speaker 5: the information they're looking for that we have not provided that. 168 00:09:43,600 --> 00:09:44,040 Speaker 6: We have it? 169 00:09:44,840 --> 00:09:47,240 Speaker 2: Well, we'd like to know in the business model that 170 00:09:47,320 --> 00:09:50,640 Speaker 2: you have, how do you intend to pay for the 171 00:09:50,880 --> 00:09:53,439 Speaker 2: nearly one hundred billions of dollars that you do not 172 00:09:53,679 --> 00:09:55,080 Speaker 2: have to finish this thing. 173 00:09:56,559 --> 00:09:59,680 Speaker 1: What they anticipate is a Democrat coming back into the 174 00:09:59,679 --> 00:10:02,120 Speaker 1: White House and turning the money spigot back on. 175 00:10:03,040 --> 00:10:04,800 Speaker 4: I would be more than happy to discuss about that. 176 00:10:05,240 --> 00:10:05,600 Speaker 4: Why not? 177 00:10:05,760 --> 00:10:08,480 Speaker 5: I mean, we improve every day, We have improved the 178 00:10:08,640 --> 00:10:10,880 Speaker 5: entire design concepts, we have improved the way. 179 00:10:11,160 --> 00:10:14,720 Speaker 1: What evidence is there of that there is still no 180 00:10:14,920 --> 00:10:19,120 Speaker 1: train and there's no hope for a train for by 181 00:10:19,120 --> 00:10:23,040 Speaker 1: their own admission, over a decade. I don't think they've 182 00:10:23,080 --> 00:10:26,520 Speaker 1: even actually settled on the train that they're going to buy. 183 00:10:27,200 --> 00:10:29,440 Speaker 1: They haven't looked at the cars yet. 184 00:10:30,400 --> 00:10:30,720 Speaker 4: Why not? 185 00:10:30,920 --> 00:10:33,640 Speaker 5: I mean, we improve every day. We have improved the 186 00:10:33,800 --> 00:10:36,160 Speaker 5: entire design concepts. We have improved the way we are 187 00:10:36,160 --> 00:10:40,120 Speaker 5: going to deliver. If there is someone who comes and says, hey, 188 00:10:40,400 --> 00:10:42,760 Speaker 5: this is the information we're looking for and you guys 189 00:10:42,800 --> 00:10:44,959 Speaker 5: are not providing it, I would like to know what 190 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:48,480 Speaker 5: that is. However, I would say this, everything we do, 191 00:10:49,520 --> 00:10:54,400 Speaker 5: every penny we spent, it's posted on our website. 192 00:10:53,880 --> 00:10:55,120 Speaker 4: For public to consume. 193 00:10:55,679 --> 00:10:57,840 Speaker 5: Not a single thing we have done on this program 194 00:10:58,240 --> 00:10:59,280 Speaker 5: is unavailable. 195 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:01,720 Speaker 2: I wonder if I look on that website, I can see 196 00:11:01,720 --> 00:11:04,640 Speaker 2: how much money they're spending for all those propaganda videos 197 00:11:04,679 --> 00:11:07,120 Speaker 2: of people talking about how excited they are for their 198 00:11:07,160 --> 00:11:09,320 Speaker 2: parent to ride the high speed rail someday. 199 00:11:09,960 --> 00:11:12,679 Speaker 1: Yeah, and how much is going to the spouses of 200 00:11:12,760 --> 00:11:16,760 Speaker 1: people who are in top management positions on that authority. 201 00:11:17,559 --> 00:11:20,400 Speaker 5: I'm more than happy to talk about what that is 202 00:11:20,440 --> 00:11:22,760 Speaker 5: in terms of transparency, and we'll improve it if there 203 00:11:22,800 --> 00:11:25,680 Speaker 5: is a reason to do that. Right now, I've not 204 00:11:25,760 --> 00:11:27,800 Speaker 5: seen I hear it. But then I'm like, well, what 205 00:11:27,880 --> 00:11:29,720 Speaker 5: is it that you guys want to know more. 206 00:11:30,440 --> 00:11:34,320 Speaker 2: Absolutely, they want to know how you intend for the 207 00:11:34,360 --> 00:11:37,480 Speaker 2: state to pay for this, you keep saying, and this 208 00:11:37,520 --> 00:11:41,160 Speaker 2: guy says, we're going to get private investment. What private 209 00:11:41,240 --> 00:11:44,880 Speaker 2: investor is looking to put money into this thing? Even 210 00:11:44,920 --> 00:11:48,240 Speaker 2: the privately run high speed rail train that's going to 211 00:11:48,280 --> 00:11:50,480 Speaker 2: be built in Vegas and the one that's kind of 212 00:11:50,520 --> 00:11:54,120 Speaker 2: built in Florida, they're losing money left and right. Who's 213 00:11:54,200 --> 00:11:55,120 Speaker 2: investing in this? 214 00:11:56,200 --> 00:11:58,920 Speaker 1: And if they're so transparent, why did it take an 215 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:01,199 Speaker 1: act of Parliament to get this guy to talk to 216 00:12:01,240 --> 00:12:01,760 Speaker 1: the news. 217 00:12:02,600 --> 00:12:04,960 Speaker 5: Absolutely, my team is committed. I mean, this is a 218 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:09,320 Speaker 5: public works program. All I tell my team to do 219 00:12:09,360 --> 00:12:12,320 Speaker 5: every day is to provide the information as much as 220 00:12:12,320 --> 00:12:15,920 Speaker 5: we can to the public through through you. 221 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:18,200 Speaker 6: Guys. What will be like for you when you start 222 00:12:18,240 --> 00:12:22,840 Speaker 6: seeing the first trains on this structure where that would be, 223 00:12:23,559 --> 00:12:24,320 Speaker 6: that will be. 224 00:12:24,360 --> 00:12:29,800 Speaker 1: You'll be an old, old many And are you kidding? Yeah, 225 00:12:29,840 --> 00:12:32,959 Speaker 1: you're gonna need a ticket in the front cabin there 226 00:12:32,960 --> 00:12:35,559 Speaker 1: of that train. No, the only thing you're going to 227 00:12:35,640 --> 00:12:38,000 Speaker 1: need is for someone to remember to mole above you 228 00:12:38,040 --> 00:12:38,720 Speaker 1: once a week. 229 00:12:39,440 --> 00:12:43,400 Speaker 5: That will be maybe my entire that will be for 230 00:12:43,559 --> 00:12:46,680 Speaker 5: my entire team, is going to be the day to 231 00:12:46,760 --> 00:12:50,320 Speaker 5: be so proud. It is the first high speed rail 232 00:12:50,840 --> 00:12:55,319 Speaker 5: in western Hemisphere. Somebody have to tell me which other 233 00:12:55,360 --> 00:12:58,760 Speaker 5: high speed rail is being built in North and South 234 00:12:58,800 --> 00:13:03,839 Speaker 5: American combined. Tell me one there isn't. There's a lot of. 235 00:13:03,800 --> 00:13:06,320 Speaker 2: Talk, yes, but why is it that so many other 236 00:13:06,360 --> 00:13:09,040 Speaker 2: countries have been able to do this and a lot 237 00:13:09,080 --> 00:13:12,480 Speaker 2: of this and we can't do it? And in California 238 00:13:12,559 --> 00:13:16,000 Speaker 2: it's been a mess. Why didn't we just hire the Japanese? 239 00:13:16,240 --> 00:13:19,680 Speaker 2: Well we did. You don't know that story. We hired 240 00:13:19,720 --> 00:13:24,600 Speaker 2: the Japanese. The Japanese became so frustrated with all of 241 00:13:24,679 --> 00:13:28,880 Speaker 2: our insane bureaucracy they quit and went to go build 242 00:13:28,880 --> 00:13:31,079 Speaker 2: a train in Morocco that they finished. 243 00:13:33,200 --> 00:13:35,239 Speaker 1: So they should have listened to the Japanese. 244 00:13:35,640 --> 00:13:39,440 Speaker 2: We started with the Japanese, and the Japanese said, I 245 00:13:39,559 --> 00:13:41,080 Speaker 2: can't deal with you people. 246 00:13:43,480 --> 00:13:46,360 Speaker 5: Canadians are talking about it, Mexico's talking about it. 247 00:13:46,840 --> 00:13:48,240 Speaker 4: We in this country have been talking. 248 00:13:48,360 --> 00:13:50,440 Speaker 5: We go visit other places and come back, Oh, let's 249 00:13:50,440 --> 00:13:53,040 Speaker 5: look at China. How they did twenty five thousand kilometer 250 00:13:53,320 --> 00:13:56,120 Speaker 5: in less than ten years. Well, they didn't have what 251 00:13:56,160 --> 00:13:58,240 Speaker 5: we're dealing with. They didn't have NPA. 252 00:13:58,080 --> 00:14:02,000 Speaker 2: Sikwa yeah, so maybe that's in an indictment of how 253 00:14:02,080 --> 00:14:06,480 Speaker 2: California's environmental policies are preventing progress. 254 00:14:06,520 --> 00:14:09,200 Speaker 1: But no one wants to change them because that's not 255 00:14:09,280 --> 00:14:11,280 Speaker 1: the way we do business in California. 256 00:14:11,800 --> 00:14:15,559 Speaker 2: Didn't have Gavin Newsom with a straight face a year 257 00:14:15,600 --> 00:14:18,200 Speaker 2: and a half ago at the press conference wherever they're 258 00:14:18,200 --> 00:14:23,120 Speaker 2: just starting construction at the railhead in Wasco, not actually Bakersfield, 259 00:14:23,840 --> 00:14:27,119 Speaker 2: talked about how we finally have gotten all the permitting 260 00:14:27,160 --> 00:14:33,640 Speaker 2: done after thirteen years. You're celebrating getting all the permitting done. 261 00:14:33,880 --> 00:14:38,960 Speaker 2: That is an indictment of everything that's wrong in California, 262 00:14:39,040 --> 00:14:42,760 Speaker 2: and he wants to change nothing. He's been in charge. 263 00:14:42,880 --> 00:14:46,440 Speaker 2: He says he's made fifty or sixty reforms to SEQUA, 264 00:14:46,640 --> 00:14:49,359 Speaker 2: hasn't really seemed to make any difference whatsoever. 265 00:14:50,880 --> 00:14:53,560 Speaker 5: Didn't have the red tips. They just blow and go, well, 266 00:14:53,560 --> 00:14:54,640 Speaker 5: look at Europe. 267 00:14:54,840 --> 00:14:56,760 Speaker 2: No, I'm not saving that as a drop either. 268 00:14:57,840 --> 00:15:01,080 Speaker 1: That would be an entertaining one. I'm not doing it. 269 00:15:01,840 --> 00:15:04,720 Speaker 1: I am a grown up. I could find a million 270 00:15:04,760 --> 00:15:06,480 Speaker 1: and one different uses for it. 271 00:15:08,160 --> 00:15:08,800 Speaker 2: Not doing it. 272 00:15:10,200 --> 00:15:13,600 Speaker 5: In Japan, Japanese High Speed Real first one was commissioned 273 00:15:14,320 --> 00:15:17,280 Speaker 5: in nineteen sixty four and since then we have been 274 00:15:17,280 --> 00:15:21,520 Speaker 5: talking about we want to have one. 275 00:15:19,920 --> 00:15:22,480 Speaker 2: Ye, So what is it about this state Ian that 276 00:15:22,720 --> 00:15:23,760 Speaker 2: cannot deliver? 277 00:15:24,920 --> 00:15:27,680 Speaker 1: You notice in a one party state, nobody can have 278 00:15:27,720 --> 00:15:31,040 Speaker 1: an honest conversation about anything because they don't want to 279 00:15:31,080 --> 00:15:32,640 Speaker 1: criticize the ruling party. 280 00:15:34,240 --> 00:15:36,680 Speaker 5: Europeans were done in nineteen ninety one, they put it. 281 00:15:37,240 --> 00:15:39,920 Speaker 5: So when we are done with this, I think this 282 00:15:39,960 --> 00:15:42,960 Speaker 5: is a moment for the entire not our team only, 283 00:15:43,080 --> 00:15:45,240 Speaker 5: but the state of California to be proud of it, 284 00:15:45,960 --> 00:15:48,800 Speaker 5: but the country as a whole, because we just created 285 00:15:48,840 --> 00:15:51,240 Speaker 5: a template how to build high speedial system. 286 00:15:51,480 --> 00:15:53,760 Speaker 4: Even this section create. 287 00:15:53,440 --> 00:15:56,120 Speaker 2: The section that nobody's going to ride because it doesn't 288 00:15:56,160 --> 00:15:58,600 Speaker 2: take you anywhere you need to go. We need to 289 00:15:58,640 --> 00:16:01,120 Speaker 2: celebrate it. This is going to be shining example for 290 00:16:01,240 --> 00:16:02,400 Speaker 2: the entire country. 291 00:16:02,800 --> 00:16:06,120 Speaker 1: Well, go back to what Newsom said. Newsom claims that 292 00:16:06,200 --> 00:16:09,160 Speaker 1: high speed rail is a success because it employs a 293 00:16:09,160 --> 00:16:11,840 Speaker 1: bunch of people, and he doesn't seem to care that 294 00:16:11,880 --> 00:16:13,720 Speaker 1: there's no actual train to ride. 295 00:16:14,640 --> 00:16:18,440 Speaker 5: Even this section creates that templary and I'm very passionate 296 00:16:18,520 --> 00:16:18,840 Speaker 5: about it. 297 00:16:18,880 --> 00:16:19,680 Speaker 4: That's why I'm here. 298 00:16:19,920 --> 00:16:21,800 Speaker 7: And you said when we get done, not if we 299 00:16:21,840 --> 00:16:22,200 Speaker 7: get done. 300 00:16:22,200 --> 00:16:25,240 Speaker 2: The first high speed rail in Europe was between Rome 301 00:16:25,320 --> 00:16:27,480 Speaker 2: and Florence. This is not that. 302 00:16:28,720 --> 00:16:31,640 Speaker 7: Nope, And you said when we get done, not if 303 00:16:31,680 --> 00:16:32,240 Speaker 7: we get done. 304 00:16:32,480 --> 00:16:34,160 Speaker 5: No, there is no if. There is no if in 305 00:16:34,200 --> 00:16:37,800 Speaker 5: our mind, absolutely none. We know twenty thirty two thirty three. 306 00:16:38,040 --> 00:16:40,200 Speaker 5: Is this section done if. 307 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:42,880 Speaker 2: We get You're already kind of iffy on the timeline. 308 00:16:43,680 --> 00:16:45,000 Speaker 1: Yeah, no kidding. 309 00:16:45,640 --> 00:16:48,520 Speaker 5: If we get all the funding that we need to 310 00:16:48,560 --> 00:16:52,600 Speaker 5: stabilize the rest of the line. In our business plan 311 00:16:52,640 --> 00:16:55,440 Speaker 5: we said we can get it done by twenty thirty nine. 312 00:16:56,360 --> 00:16:59,320 Speaker 2: Yeah, but where are we getting the one hundred billion 313 00:16:59,400 --> 00:17:02,000 Speaker 2: dollars you need to build it? 314 00:17:02,120 --> 00:17:05,480 Speaker 1: And there are no consequences. So now they're saying, we're 315 00:17:05,480 --> 00:17:07,600 Speaker 1: going to put a gun in your head, give us 316 00:17:07,640 --> 00:17:09,480 Speaker 1: what we want, and we'll get it done in twenty 317 00:17:09,520 --> 00:17:12,920 Speaker 1: thirty nine. And then when twenty thirty nine comes and 318 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:15,960 Speaker 1: goes and we have no train, they're going to go, well, 319 00:17:16,040 --> 00:17:18,680 Speaker 1: circumstances have changed. What do you expect us to do? 320 00:17:18,960 --> 00:17:21,800 Speaker 1: Have a magic Wand in our business. 321 00:17:21,560 --> 00:17:24,040 Speaker 5: Plan we said we can get it done by twenty 322 00:17:24,080 --> 00:17:26,640 Speaker 5: thirty nine in our lifetime, But. 323 00:17:26,640 --> 00:17:30,080 Speaker 7: There wasn't if there when you came in talk about funding. 324 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:32,440 Speaker 5: Well, funding, Look, we've got a bill house. You gotta 325 00:17:32,480 --> 00:17:35,080 Speaker 5: have money. What's your collateral? Like, you know, you want 326 00:17:35,119 --> 00:17:39,160 Speaker 5: to bring private sector in and say hey, invest advance, 327 00:17:39,320 --> 00:17:41,280 Speaker 5: they can do it. This is what they do. This 328 00:17:41,359 --> 00:17:42,240 Speaker 5: is their business model. 329 00:17:42,920 --> 00:17:47,120 Speaker 2: Who is investing, who is even interested in investing. I'm 330 00:17:47,160 --> 00:17:48,880 Speaker 2: not seeing anybody. 331 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:54,120 Speaker 1: This is not an actual date of when this project 332 00:17:54,200 --> 00:17:56,240 Speaker 1: is going to be done. That's not what he's doing here. 333 00:17:56,680 --> 00:17:59,600 Speaker 1: What he's doing is he is trying to extort us 334 00:17:59,680 --> 00:18:01,800 Speaker 1: for more money. Yep. 335 00:18:02,480 --> 00:18:07,080 Speaker 2: And even the privately funded company Brightline West is looking 336 00:18:07,119 --> 00:18:11,760 Speaker 2: for bailouts from the government because nobody's investing in that train. 337 00:18:13,240 --> 00:18:15,880 Speaker 4: And so they advanced programs MAADEC based on. 338 00:18:15,840 --> 00:18:19,119 Speaker 2: A Brightline the company that's trying to build Vegas to 339 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:24,080 Speaker 2: southern California, not La but Victorville, the one that built 340 00:18:24,080 --> 00:18:29,320 Speaker 2: a train from from what Tampa to Orlando. They are 341 00:18:29,440 --> 00:18:31,000 Speaker 2: in junk bond status. 342 00:18:31,560 --> 00:18:35,320 Speaker 5: Uh oh, And so they advanced programs MAADEC based on 343 00:18:35,359 --> 00:18:38,480 Speaker 5: a long term commitment from the state of the federal government. 344 00:18:40,160 --> 00:18:41,120 Speaker 4: Then they invest. 345 00:18:41,600 --> 00:18:43,919 Speaker 5: So, yes, you want to build your house, you need 346 00:18:43,960 --> 00:18:46,240 Speaker 5: the money to build them and if you don't have it. 347 00:18:48,640 --> 00:18:51,199 Speaker 3: That interview is part of a larger story. Jason is 348 00:18:51,200 --> 00:18:53,639 Speaker 3: putting together on the high speed rail, which we'll have 349 00:18:53,720 --> 00:18:55,040 Speaker 3: for you later this summer. 350 00:18:55,160 --> 00:18:56,119 Speaker 2: Oh, I can't wait. 351 00:18:57,680 --> 00:18:59,920 Speaker 1: That will be a spicy one, that's for sure. 352 00:19:00,960 --> 00:19:05,120 Speaker 2: Don't be booking any trips on that trend anytime soon, kids. 353 00:19:05,560 --> 00:19:10,160 Speaker 1: Nope, it's the John and Phillips Show. 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What 379 00:20:24,200 --> 00:20:30,000 Speaker 1: eight hundred two two two five two two two On Saturday, 380 00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:35,080 Speaker 1: assuming the air quality is better, Randy, you and I 381 00:20:35,119 --> 00:20:37,240 Speaker 1: are going to be participating in a five K for 382 00:20:37,280 --> 00:20:38,560 Speaker 1: the Union Rescue Mission. 383 00:20:38,720 --> 00:20:41,560 Speaker 2: It's the Union Rescue Mission five K ten K run 384 00:20:41,640 --> 00:20:44,840 Speaker 2: Walk in Griffith Park this Saturday, June twenty seventh. It's 385 00:20:44,880 --> 00:20:46,840 Speaker 2: a great morning for a great cause and we'll be 386 00:20:46,880 --> 00:20:50,360 Speaker 2: there in person, running, walking, or doing something like that. 387 00:20:50,760 --> 00:20:53,520 Speaker 2: Join Team KABC, stop by and say hello, we'd love 388 00:20:53,560 --> 00:20:56,240 Speaker 2: to meet you. Every step supports the incredible work that 389 00:20:56,280 --> 00:21:00,000 Speaker 2: the Union Rescue Mission does every single day in Los Angeles. 390 00:21:00,320 --> 00:21:01,840 Speaker 2: If you want to sign up, you can do so 391 00:21:01,920 --> 00:21:05,120 Speaker 2: at RM dot org. Slash run Walk. 392 00:21:05,840 --> 00:21:08,119 Speaker 1: So we know that the roads in the state of 393 00:21:08,200 --> 00:21:12,360 Speaker 1: California in many of our big cities in particular, are awful, 394 00:21:12,840 --> 00:21:15,120 Speaker 1: and we know that we grumble about it and complain 395 00:21:15,160 --> 00:21:21,159 Speaker 1: about it NonStop. However, there's also a cost associated with 396 00:21:21,280 --> 00:21:23,080 Speaker 1: those low quality roads. 397 00:21:24,040 --> 00:21:27,480 Speaker 2: And in fact, according to a new study in San Diego, 398 00:21:27,600 --> 00:21:31,320 Speaker 2: the average San Diegon pays about three thousand dollars a 399 00:21:31,480 --> 00:21:35,920 Speaker 2: year in maintenance and damage to their cars from how 400 00:21:35,960 --> 00:21:37,120 Speaker 2: bad the roads are. 401 00:21:38,440 --> 00:21:39,520 Speaker 1: That seems about right. 402 00:21:39,960 --> 00:21:42,280 Speaker 2: For more on this, we got a CBS eight in 403 00:21:42,480 --> 00:21:43,720 Speaker 2: San Diego. 404 00:21:43,720 --> 00:21:46,840 Speaker 8: Prices that the pump have been impacting San die against walllets. 405 00:21:46,840 --> 00:21:50,159 Speaker 8: But that's not the only thing costing drivers more. We 406 00:21:50,359 --> 00:21:53,080 Speaker 8: are paying the price for rough roads to the tune 407 00:21:53,119 --> 00:21:56,120 Speaker 8: of thousands of dollars a year in added car repairs. 408 00:21:56,440 --> 00:21:59,480 Speaker 8: Car maintenance can get expensive, and roads in our area 409 00:21:59,600 --> 00:22:03,000 Speaker 8: definitely not helping. Misday's Aesmeralda Perez joins us now in 410 00:22:03,080 --> 00:22:04,960 Speaker 8: Studio with what a new study found. 411 00:22:05,119 --> 00:22:08,280 Speaker 9: Esmeralda, well, see if that new reporter finds that traffic 412 00:22:08,480 --> 00:22:12,399 Speaker 9: crashes and deteriorating roads are costing the average San Diego 413 00:22:12,480 --> 00:22:15,760 Speaker 9: driver nearly thirty four one hundred dollars a year. We 414 00:22:15,840 --> 00:22:19,040 Speaker 9: spoke with a local auto mechanic about the repairs he's seeing. 415 00:22:19,080 --> 00:22:21,919 Speaker 2: Most often me guess potholes. 416 00:22:23,119 --> 00:22:26,640 Speaker 1: And what's funny is that not long ago, San Diego 417 00:22:27,040 --> 00:22:29,880 Speaker 1: was a very well run big city and they were 418 00:22:29,920 --> 00:22:32,240 Speaker 1: able to fix things like potholes. 419 00:22:32,840 --> 00:22:33,480 Speaker 2: Not anymore. 420 00:22:35,240 --> 00:22:38,480 Speaker 10: Getting around in San Diego means spending a good amount 421 00:22:38,520 --> 00:22:41,000 Speaker 10: of time on the road, and according to a new 422 00:22:41,040 --> 00:22:45,440 Speaker 10: reports from the Transportation Research nonprofit TRIP, those commutes may 423 00:22:45,440 --> 00:22:46,600 Speaker 10: be costing drivers. 424 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:50,040 Speaker 11: The report found in the San Diego area, approximately a 425 00:22:50,119 --> 00:22:52,639 Speaker 11: third of the major roads thirty two percent of the 426 00:22:52,680 --> 00:22:56,359 Speaker 11: major roads have payments in poor condition, whether they're maintained 427 00:22:56,359 --> 00:22:59,000 Speaker 11: by local or state governments. These these are roadways that 428 00:22:59,040 --> 00:23:02,040 Speaker 11: are giving you a rough fride. What that does is 429 00:23:02,200 --> 00:23:05,239 Speaker 11: it also tends to knock your vehicle around, and that 430 00:23:05,359 --> 00:23:09,360 Speaker 11: accelerates essentially how quickly your vehicle falls apart. 431 00:23:09,359 --> 00:23:12,560 Speaker 10: Rocky Malready with tripp says. The reports also highlights that 432 00:23:12,640 --> 00:23:15,440 Speaker 10: on average, about three hundred people were killed each year 433 00:23:15,520 --> 00:23:19,680 Speaker 10: on San Diego roads, including motorists, bicyclists, and pedestrians. 434 00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:23,959 Speaker 2: Although those numbers, again, because we hear that statistic all 435 00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:26,719 Speaker 2: the time in LA two, you have to remember that 436 00:23:26,760 --> 00:23:29,840 Speaker 2: they are skewed in the sense that they lump in 437 00:23:30,320 --> 00:23:32,879 Speaker 2: homeless people that jump out in the middle of the street, 438 00:23:32,960 --> 00:23:35,520 Speaker 2: as pedestrian deaths, and if any. 439 00:23:35,359 --> 00:23:37,800 Speaker 1: Of you go to work very early in the morning 440 00:23:37,920 --> 00:23:41,919 Speaker 1: in particular, you know that that happens all the time. 441 00:23:42,680 --> 00:23:46,200 Speaker 10: The report estimates safety costs about three hundred and forty 442 00:23:46,200 --> 00:23:47,439 Speaker 10: four dollars per driver. 443 00:23:48,040 --> 00:23:51,200 Speaker 11: The report found just the rough roads themselves are causing 444 00:23:51,240 --> 00:23:54,359 Speaker 11: the average driver seven hundred and ninety six dollars per year. 445 00:23:54,840 --> 00:23:58,280 Speaker 11: That's because your vehicle needs more repairs. Unfortunately. 446 00:23:58,720 --> 00:24:03,399 Speaker 2: I know for instant there was a good string of 447 00:24:03,560 --> 00:24:08,119 Speaker 2: probably five years where at least once a year me 448 00:24:08,280 --> 00:24:11,359 Speaker 2: making this commute to Culver City, whether I was living 449 00:24:11,400 --> 00:24:15,240 Speaker 2: in Burbank Recita or in Lake Balboa where I live now, 450 00:24:16,160 --> 00:24:18,680 Speaker 2: I had a nail in my tire and it would 451 00:24:18,680 --> 00:24:24,399 Speaker 2: happen over and over and over again. If you drive 452 00:24:24,880 --> 00:24:29,000 Speaker 2: southern California freeways, there's no way to avoid that from happening. 453 00:24:30,080 --> 00:24:31,919 Speaker 11: Doesn't last as long as you want, and when you 454 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:35,120 Speaker 11: monetize it, it's nearly eight hundred dollars a year. 455 00:24:35,400 --> 00:24:38,359 Speaker 10: We checked in with Nova Repair, sy mobile auto repair 456 00:24:38,440 --> 00:24:41,040 Speaker 10: business about what kinds of damage they're seeing that could 457 00:24:41,080 --> 00:24:42,679 Speaker 10: be linked to poor road conditions. 458 00:24:42,720 --> 00:24:47,159 Speaker 12: The lower control arms shocks. Ball joints are usually the 459 00:24:47,160 --> 00:24:50,280 Speaker 12: ones getting effective. A lot you get kind of a 460 00:24:50,320 --> 00:24:55,800 Speaker 12: squarely little staying wheel issues, sometimes noises, a lot of noises, 461 00:24:56,720 --> 00:24:59,200 Speaker 12: and then some break, some breaks. 462 00:24:59,600 --> 00:25:03,040 Speaker 10: Daniel says he gets service calls for pothole damage or 463 00:25:03,119 --> 00:25:07,320 Speaker 10: road related issues just about every other day, sometimes daily. 464 00:25:11,240 --> 00:25:13,080 Speaker 2: With the tax base we have, and this is with 465 00:25:13,320 --> 00:25:17,440 Speaker 2: the gas tax, they can't pave any of these roads. 466 00:25:16,600 --> 00:25:20,000 Speaker 1: For what we pay in taxes, we should have the 467 00:25:20,040 --> 00:25:23,000 Speaker 1: smoothest roads in the nation for drivers. 468 00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:26,680 Speaker 10: He says, regular maintenance and alignments are key, and any 469 00:25:26,720 --> 00:25:28,760 Speaker 10: strange noises shouldn't be ignored. 470 00:25:29,240 --> 00:25:32,800 Speaker 2: Other states have snow and they have better maintained roads 471 00:25:32,840 --> 00:25:33,320 Speaker 2: than we do. 472 00:25:35,240 --> 00:25:38,600 Speaker 10: He also recommends getting a pre purchase inspection when buying 473 00:25:38,600 --> 00:25:39,160 Speaker 10: a vehicle. 474 00:25:39,280 --> 00:25:41,119 Speaker 12: A good Lenman and like around here would be a 475 00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:44,240 Speaker 12: helpful lot, especially like let's say you tires start worrying 476 00:25:44,280 --> 00:25:47,879 Speaker 12: off like unevenly. That could also be due just between 477 00:25:47,920 --> 00:25:51,720 Speaker 12: like potholes, any kind of like uneven surfaces will cause 478 00:25:51,720 --> 00:25:55,960 Speaker 12: that a lot then that just goes. They just snowballs 479 00:25:56,119 --> 00:25:57,639 Speaker 12: like after that and. 480 00:25:57,520 --> 00:26:00,480 Speaker 9: It's not just a rough roads taking a Tollmrati says 481 00:26:00,520 --> 00:26:03,640 Speaker 9: the average San Diego driver spends an extra eighty eight 482 00:26:03,840 --> 00:26:07,119 Speaker 9: hours a year stuck in traffic and waste about thirty 483 00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:08,440 Speaker 9: gallons of fuel. 484 00:26:08,760 --> 00:26:11,840 Speaker 2: And you lose a lot of your hair from ripping 485 00:26:11,880 --> 00:26:14,600 Speaker 2: it out, You lose a lot of your will to 486 00:26:14,680 --> 00:26:17,199 Speaker 2: live and everything else that goes with sitting on the 487 00:26:17,200 --> 00:26:18,560 Speaker 2: freeway every single day. 488 00:26:19,080 --> 00:26:21,600 Speaker 1: Well, and you missed the ability to have dinner with 489 00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:25,320 Speaker 1: your family, You missed the ability to go to the gym, 490 00:26:25,720 --> 00:26:28,280 Speaker 1: you miss the ability to pick up your dry cleaning. 491 00:26:28,760 --> 00:26:31,760 Speaker 1: When you sit in traffic that goes on forever, you 492 00:26:31,840 --> 00:26:34,040 Speaker 1: have to cut certain things out of your day. 493 00:26:34,800 --> 00:26:38,359 Speaker 9: The congestion alone costs to average motorists more than two 494 00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:41,560 Speaker 9: thousand dollars here in San Diego. A lot of money 495 00:26:41,640 --> 00:26:42,480 Speaker 9: steve back to you. 496 00:26:42,760 --> 00:26:45,280 Speaker 8: It definitely adds up fast es Merelda, thank you. 497 00:26:45,600 --> 00:26:48,120 Speaker 2: So there you go, and this is true for most 498 00:26:48,160 --> 00:26:52,240 Speaker 2: of California. You're probably spending about three thousand dollars a 499 00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:56,040 Speaker 2: year on idling gas and car repairs from our horrible 500 00:26:56,160 --> 00:26:57,840 Speaker 2: roads and our horrible traffic. 501 00:26:58,800 --> 00:27:01,840 Speaker 1: And of course, if you ask the government why we 502 00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:04,920 Speaker 1: drive on these roads that look like the surface of 503 00:27:04,960 --> 00:27:08,320 Speaker 1: the moon, the answer is you don't pay enough in 504 00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:10,040 Speaker 1: taxes for more on. 505 00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:14,359 Speaker 2: This We go to report from KPBS in San Diego. 506 00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:19,000 Speaker 13: San Diego's roads are crumbling faster than the city can 507 00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:22,280 Speaker 13: fix them. An update from the Transportation Department shows a 508 00:27:22,359 --> 00:27:25,400 Speaker 13: huge gap in funding for road repairs at the current level. 509 00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:28,000 Speaker 13: The problem is only going to get worse. But recent 510 00:27:28,040 --> 00:27:31,199 Speaker 13: efforts to raise money for roads and transit an alternative 511 00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:34,200 Speaker 13: to driving, failed at the ballot box, leaving the city 512 00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:36,760 Speaker 13: with a major gap in funding for critical infrastructure. 513 00:27:37,480 --> 00:27:39,480 Speaker 2: And don't worry, they're going to try that tax sic 514 00:27:39,560 --> 00:27:42,159 Speaker 2: again and again and again until it passes. But at 515 00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:45,879 Speaker 2: this point San Diegans have been taxed and feed to 516 00:27:45,960 --> 00:27:49,200 Speaker 2: the point where they're finally saying, no, Moss, how about 517 00:27:49,240 --> 00:27:54,000 Speaker 2: this cut something that's not necessary and do something that 518 00:27:54,119 --> 00:27:58,400 Speaker 2: all of us need, which is pave the roads. Now 519 00:27:58,440 --> 00:27:59,200 Speaker 2: we can't do that. 520 00:28:00,040 --> 00:28:03,760 Speaker 13: Schneider, CEO and founder of the advocacy group Streets for All, said, 521 00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:05,520 Speaker 13: this problem isn't unique to San Diego. 522 00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:08,439 Speaker 2: Okay, by the way, this is the guy who's behind 523 00:28:08,480 --> 00:28:12,920 Speaker 2: Measure HLA, which means every single time you pave a street, 524 00:28:13,240 --> 00:28:15,520 Speaker 2: you have to put in a road diet, which is 525 00:28:15,560 --> 00:28:18,639 Speaker 2: so expensive that the city of La has decided to 526 00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:20,639 Speaker 2: just stop paving the streets. 527 00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:23,720 Speaker 1: And this report that we're listening to now is from 528 00:28:23,760 --> 00:28:28,399 Speaker 1: public broadcasting. Correct, Yes, KPBS is why they're going to 529 00:28:28,480 --> 00:28:29,480 Speaker 1: him as the expert. 530 00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:33,800 Speaker 14: Yes, most cities in the US don't have the density 531 00:28:34,520 --> 00:28:38,480 Speaker 14: to and therefore the tax space per square footage of 532 00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:39,880 Speaker 14: road to be able to maintain it well. 533 00:28:43,520 --> 00:28:45,960 Speaker 1: In Los Angeles, how long has it been since we've 534 00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:46,959 Speaker 1: repaved a street. 535 00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:51,680 Speaker 2: It's been about a year and a half. But of 536 00:28:51,760 --> 00:28:55,560 Speaker 2: course we need more density to put even more people 537 00:28:55,600 --> 00:28:58,000 Speaker 2: on these roads, and then we'll have enough money to 538 00:28:58,040 --> 00:28:58,640 Speaker 2: pay for it. 539 00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:02,400 Speaker 13: San Diego has the second largest network of roads in California. 540 00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:05,400 Speaker 2: The transfer they actually finished their freeways. 541 00:29:06,520 --> 00:29:09,600 Speaker 13: The Transportation Department says it needs one point eight billion 542 00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:12,000 Speaker 13: dollars over the next ten years to keep them in 543 00:29:12,040 --> 00:29:15,880 Speaker 13: an acceptable condition. Mayor Todd Gloria said multiple times during 544 00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:20,320 Speaker 13: the budget process that fixing the roads was a priority. 545 00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:25,760 Speaker 1: Could be absolute worse by the way absent Bob Filner, 546 00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:28,840 Speaker 1: San Diego has had a string of very good mayors 547 00:29:29,120 --> 00:29:33,280 Speaker 1: and then they end up with one Sacramento politician as 548 00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:35,560 Speaker 1: mayor and everything goes to hell. 549 00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:40,120 Speaker 2: That means staying focused on the fundamentals keeping you safe, 550 00:29:40,520 --> 00:29:46,560 Speaker 2: fixing roads and sidewalks, reducing homelessness, and building more homes. Yeah, 551 00:29:46,680 --> 00:29:49,120 Speaker 2: one of those is not like the other because the 552 00:29:49,160 --> 00:29:52,680 Speaker 2: reducing homelessness is a gigantic grift where all the money 553 00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:57,040 Speaker 2: that should be going to pave the roads goes. But recently, 554 00:29:57,040 --> 00:29:58,840 Speaker 2: by the way, you know what he calls his initiative 555 00:29:58,880 --> 00:30:01,200 Speaker 2: here the se these streets initiative. 556 00:30:01,640 --> 00:30:05,240 Speaker 13: Oh, come on, but recent budgets have been far short 557 00:30:05,240 --> 00:30:08,480 Speaker 13: of what the Transportation Department says it needs. The long 558 00:30:08,600 --> 00:30:12,160 Speaker 13: term effect of underfunding road repairs is a rapidly deteriorating 559 00:30:12,200 --> 00:30:14,800 Speaker 13: network that will only cost more to fix in the future. 560 00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:19,360 Speaker 13: UCSD professor and former city Planning Director Bill Fulton said 561 00:30:19,360 --> 00:30:22,080 Speaker 13: the problem starts with the city's low density neighborhoods. 562 00:30:23,240 --> 00:30:25,840 Speaker 2: That's it. It's the suburb's fault yep. 563 00:30:27,240 --> 00:30:32,000 Speaker 15: When you have a sprawling city, the math doesn't add 564 00:30:32,120 --> 00:30:36,200 Speaker 15: up between the amount of tax revenue coming in and 565 00:30:36,320 --> 00:30:38,280 Speaker 15: the amount of money that has to go out the 566 00:30:38,280 --> 00:30:39,440 Speaker 15: door for services. 567 00:30:39,880 --> 00:30:42,560 Speaker 2: You know, Texas has a lot of sprawl, has a 568 00:30:42,640 --> 00:30:47,120 Speaker 2: lot of big neighborhoods that aren't giant dense cities. They 569 00:30:47,120 --> 00:30:49,400 Speaker 2: have roads that are a much better condition than us. 570 00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:53,720 Speaker 1: Explain that, or how about this twenty years ago. San 571 00:30:53,760 --> 00:30:55,160 Speaker 1: Diego was able to do it. 572 00:30:56,280 --> 00:30:59,160 Speaker 13: According to Shane Phillips with the UCLA Leskin School of 573 00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:03,160 Speaker 13: Public Affairs, California's Prop thirteen, which limits the property tax 574 00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:06,160 Speaker 13: revenue cities collect, only compounds the issue. 575 00:31:06,320 --> 00:31:09,800 Speaker 2: Sure, it's Prop thirteen's fault, which has been around since 576 00:31:09,920 --> 00:31:11,160 Speaker 2: nineteen seventy eight. 577 00:31:12,840 --> 00:31:16,000 Speaker 1: This is what the old timers all used to do 578 00:31:16,800 --> 00:31:19,960 Speaker 1: any time something went haywire in California. Well it's Prop 579 00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:22,880 Speaker 1: thirteen's fault. Well, of course it's Prop thirteen's fault. I 580 00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:26,920 Speaker 1: remember being an undergraduate in college and I remember talking 581 00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:30,960 Speaker 1: to some old bad from it was the League of 582 00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:34,600 Speaker 1: Women Voters, and it was about some problem that was 583 00:31:34,680 --> 00:31:38,400 Speaker 1: going on in nineteen ninety eight, and she goes, well, 584 00:31:38,640 --> 00:31:42,200 Speaker 1: it's all because of Prop thirteen. And I remember thinking, 585 00:31:42,720 --> 00:31:47,200 Speaker 1: this woman is nuts. But that's what they used to 586 00:31:47,240 --> 00:31:50,520 Speaker 1: say in the old days. They blamed everything on Prop thirteen, 587 00:31:50,800 --> 00:31:53,360 Speaker 1: and now they're back to it. For a while, they 588 00:31:53,400 --> 00:31:56,360 Speaker 1: took a break because they knew it was politically unpopular 589 00:31:56,440 --> 00:31:59,240 Speaker 1: to do. But now we're such a one party state 590 00:31:59,520 --> 00:32:01,600 Speaker 1: they figured, you're, all right, let's just go back to 591 00:32:01,640 --> 00:32:04,520 Speaker 1: blaming everything on Prop thirteen. And what you can't blame 592 00:32:04,560 --> 00:32:06,280 Speaker 1: on Prop thirteen, blame on COVID. 593 00:32:06,640 --> 00:32:12,000 Speaker 16: We've just made the most fair and efficient forms of 594 00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:17,240 Speaker 16: raising revenue to fund these kinds of services and infrastructure. 595 00:32:17,760 --> 00:32:18,400 Speaker 7: We've made it. 596 00:32:18,360 --> 00:32:24,680 Speaker 16: Illegal or extremely unequal and really neutered it in a 597 00:32:24,680 --> 00:32:26,040 Speaker 16: lot of ways, and so we end up. 598 00:32:26,160 --> 00:32:28,920 Speaker 1: You know what, the best thing that Trump administration has 599 00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:32,800 Speaker 1: done is defund public broadcasting. I can't believe they're putting 600 00:32:32,800 --> 00:32:33,920 Speaker 1: this trashure on the air. 601 00:32:37,480 --> 00:32:41,000 Speaker 16: Having to find other routes with sales taxes and income taxes. 602 00:32:41,360 --> 00:32:43,920 Speaker 13: That's what San Diego tried to do with ballot measures 603 00:32:43,960 --> 00:32:44,920 Speaker 13: that failed by lesson. 604 00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:48,120 Speaker 2: Don't you dare tell me that the nine thousand dollars 605 00:32:48,160 --> 00:32:50,640 Speaker 2: I pay on my dumpy little house in the valley 606 00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:51,400 Speaker 2: isn't enough. 607 00:32:54,320 --> 00:32:56,920 Speaker 13: That's what San Diego tried to do with ballot measures 608 00:32:56,920 --> 00:32:59,520 Speaker 13: that failed by less than one percent in twenty twenty four. 609 00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:02,360 Speaker 13: Measure E would have raised four hundred million a year 610 00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:04,440 Speaker 13: for infrastructure, including road repairs. 611 00:33:04,720 --> 00:33:07,280 Speaker 2: Yeah, but how often do they raise these taxes and 612 00:33:07,320 --> 00:33:09,440 Speaker 2: it does not go towards the thing they say it's 613 00:33:09,480 --> 00:33:11,800 Speaker 2: going towards. People don't believe you anymore. 614 00:33:12,440 --> 00:33:14,920 Speaker 1: That is what they always do. They take the money 615 00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:17,760 Speaker 1: they give them to these NGOs, and the money goes 616 00:33:17,800 --> 00:33:21,080 Speaker 1: to politically connected people, and not to solve the problem 617 00:33:21,160 --> 00:33:22,080 Speaker 1: that's supposed to solve. 618 00:33:22,480 --> 00:33:24,680 Speaker 13: In measure G at the county level would have raised 619 00:33:24,680 --> 00:33:27,800 Speaker 13: three hundred and fifty million annually for roads, transit, and 620 00:33:27,880 --> 00:33:28,800 Speaker 13: congestion reduction. 621 00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:32,800 Speaker 15: I think San Diego's tolerance sermar Texas has always been 622 00:33:32,840 --> 00:33:33,840 Speaker 15: pretty low. 623 00:33:33,840 --> 00:33:37,800 Speaker 13: Many Santyeggans don't have reliable alternatives to driving. A recent 624 00:33:37,800 --> 00:33:40,160 Speaker 13: grand jury report found the city is well short of 625 00:33:40,200 --> 00:33:43,120 Speaker 13: building safe enough bike infrastructure to encourage more writers. 626 00:33:43,280 --> 00:33:46,960 Speaker 1: Of course that's the agenda here, more bike lanes, more 627 00:33:47,080 --> 00:33:50,160 Speaker 1: road diets, fewer lanes for cars. 628 00:33:50,840 --> 00:33:54,000 Speaker 13: And the city Transit Agency MTS is also facing a 629 00:33:54,040 --> 00:33:56,920 Speaker 13: budget deficit that has them raising fares and looking at 630 00:33:56,920 --> 00:33:59,880 Speaker 13: their own ballot measure. So what can be done? 631 00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:02,280 Speaker 2: I didn't realize they're also doing a transit tex So 632 00:34:02,280 --> 00:34:04,800 Speaker 2: we're gonna have a transit tax in the Bay Area, 633 00:34:04,880 --> 00:34:06,800 Speaker 2: in Fresno and in San Diego. 634 00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:09,400 Speaker 13: Great, So what can be done? 635 00:34:09,600 --> 00:34:13,120 Speaker 14: There is no fast solution to this. It requires changing 636 00:34:13,160 --> 00:34:16,359 Speaker 14: up people get around, finding or money to sort of 637 00:34:16,520 --> 00:34:21,120 Speaker 14: tide you over, and fundamentally rethinking how we pay for 638 00:34:21,160 --> 00:34:21,720 Speaker 14: these things. 639 00:34:21,920 --> 00:34:23,600 Speaker 13: Philip said, building more homes or. 640 00:34:23,719 --> 00:34:26,040 Speaker 2: You, by the way, need to look at everyone that 641 00:34:26,120 --> 00:34:28,920 Speaker 2: gets endorsed by that organization, and you know who did 642 00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:32,520 Speaker 2: not vote for that. Streets for All not good. 643 00:34:33,160 --> 00:34:35,120 Speaker 1: It's a great shortcut. 644 00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:37,960 Speaker 13: Phillips said. Building more homes around the infrastructure we do 645 00:34:38,040 --> 00:34:38,759 Speaker 13: have would help. 646 00:34:39,080 --> 00:34:42,160 Speaker 16: We're not talking high rise housing necessarily, just denser than 647 00:34:42,920 --> 00:34:45,680 Speaker 16: five homes an acre or something like that that you'll 648 00:34:45,719 --> 00:34:46,840 Speaker 16: often see in suburbs. 649 00:34:47,080 --> 00:34:50,520 Speaker 2: Yes, because the neighbors in San Diego love the ADU 650 00:34:50,680 --> 00:34:54,000 Speaker 2: density bonus program that has allowed for ten unit apartment 651 00:34:54,040 --> 00:34:56,759 Speaker 2: buildings in the backyard of a single family home with 652 00:34:56,840 --> 00:34:59,279 Speaker 2: no requirement for parking. People love that. 653 00:35:00,200 --> 00:35:03,040 Speaker 1: What's wild to me is that no one moves to 654 00:35:03,120 --> 00:35:06,719 Speaker 1: California to live in Manhattan. If you want to live 655 00:35:06,719 --> 00:35:11,360 Speaker 1: in Manhattan, go live in Manhattan. People live in California 656 00:35:11,560 --> 00:35:14,759 Speaker 1: because they like the trees, They like the sunshine, they 657 00:35:14,840 --> 00:35:18,880 Speaker 1: like the mountains, they like the ocean, they like the bridges, 658 00:35:19,280 --> 00:35:23,799 Speaker 1: they like our views, they enjoy the outdoors. No one 659 00:35:23,880 --> 00:35:27,560 Speaker 1: wants to live here in a building that goes up 660 00:35:27,600 --> 00:35:30,520 Speaker 1: into the clouds and has a Panda express on the 661 00:35:30,560 --> 00:35:35,080 Speaker 1: first floor. There are cities that specialize in that there 662 00:35:35,080 --> 00:35:38,319 Speaker 1: are regions that specialize in that. We're not it. 663 00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:42,200 Speaker 13: Because, according to Fulton, denser areas generate a lot more 664 00:35:42,239 --> 00:35:43,120 Speaker 13: tax revenue. 665 00:35:43,480 --> 00:35:47,000 Speaker 17: I think what people don't realize is dense areas of 666 00:35:47,080 --> 00:35:50,640 Speaker 17: the cities, such as downtown, such as UTC, such as Hillcrest, 667 00:35:51,760 --> 00:35:57,120 Speaker 17: actually subsidize the low density, single family suburbs. 668 00:35:56,760 --> 00:35:57,720 Speaker 2: Not when they're vacant. 669 00:35:58,440 --> 00:36:02,920 Speaker 1: You see, here's what they want. High density leads to 670 00:36:03,280 --> 00:36:09,480 Speaker 1: liberal voting patterns. Low density leads to conservative voting patterns. 671 00:36:09,520 --> 00:36:12,560 Speaker 1: It's why rural areas are red and why big cities 672 00:36:12,600 --> 00:36:16,160 Speaker 1: are blue. Here's why. When you live in a big 673 00:36:16,239 --> 00:36:21,520 Speaker 1: city in a high density area, the density means that 674 00:36:21,560 --> 00:36:26,400 Speaker 1: everything that your neighbor does impacts you. If your neighbor smokes, 675 00:36:26,600 --> 00:36:29,360 Speaker 1: you smell the smoke. If your neighbor has a gun 676 00:36:29,400 --> 00:36:31,640 Speaker 1: and shoots his gun, it can fly through the wall 677 00:36:31,680 --> 00:36:35,480 Speaker 1: and hit you. If your neighbor parks his car on 678 00:36:35,520 --> 00:36:39,880 Speaker 1: the street, that impacts your ability to park near your home. 679 00:36:40,680 --> 00:36:44,800 Speaker 1: Everything that happens that your neighbor does impacts you and 680 00:36:44,880 --> 00:36:49,080 Speaker 1: your quality of life. So you have the impulse to 681 00:36:49,239 --> 00:36:52,960 Speaker 1: regulate your neighbor to death. If you live in an 682 00:36:53,040 --> 00:36:56,960 Speaker 1: area where there's very low density. If your neighbor smokes, 683 00:36:57,239 --> 00:37:00,400 Speaker 1: you don't smell it, so you don't care. The neighbor 684 00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:03,000 Speaker 1: has a gun, he's not going to shoot you, so 685 00:37:03,120 --> 00:37:07,520 Speaker 1: you don't care. If your neighbor has a car, he 686 00:37:07,560 --> 00:37:09,520 Speaker 1: can park on the street and it's not going to 687 00:37:09,560 --> 00:37:13,640 Speaker 1: impact your life. So you have less of an impulse 688 00:37:13,760 --> 00:37:16,799 Speaker 1: to regulate your neighbor to death because you have a 689 00:37:16,920 --> 00:37:21,239 Speaker 1: positive attitude about your neighbor, whereas in high density you 690 00:37:21,280 --> 00:37:24,400 Speaker 1: have negative attitudes about your neighbor and you want the 691 00:37:24,440 --> 00:37:28,160 Speaker 1: government to step in and regulate them. I think what 692 00:37:28,200 --> 00:37:30,600 Speaker 1: they're trying to do is they're trying to remake the 693 00:37:30,640 --> 00:37:33,759 Speaker 1: politics of the state and make us even more left 694 00:37:33,800 --> 00:37:36,919 Speaker 1: wing than we are today by forcing all of us 695 00:37:37,120 --> 00:37:40,000 Speaker 1: into the high density housing that we don't want. 696 00:37:40,400 --> 00:37:42,960 Speaker 13: Permitting records show San Diego is building a lot of 697 00:37:42,960 --> 00:37:45,320 Speaker 13: homes in its urban core, but there's still plenty of 698 00:37:45,400 --> 00:37:50,320 Speaker 13: pushback against that sort of development. Jay gotta KPBS News. 699 00:37:50,120 --> 00:37:53,400 Speaker 2: So there you go. Some analysts think the way that 700 00:37:53,440 --> 00:37:56,200 Speaker 2: we pay for our roads is by getting rid of 701 00:37:56,200 --> 00:37:57,000 Speaker 2: Prop thirteen. 702 00:37:57,760 --> 00:38:02,040 Speaker 1: Idiot, it's the giant Phillips eight hundred two two two 703 00:38:02,080 --> 00:38:05,279 Speaker 1: five two two two is a telephone number what eight 704 00:38:05,360 --> 00:38:08,719 Speaker 1: hundred two to two two five two two two. Let's go 705 00:38:08,760 --> 00:38:10,040 Speaker 1: to Mark in San Diego. 706 00:38:10,239 --> 00:38:15,400 Speaker 18: Mark, Hello, Hey, John, all of the above is hitting 707 00:38:15,400 --> 00:38:17,640 Speaker 18: me in the next five to ten years. Everything you 708 00:38:17,760 --> 00:38:22,080 Speaker 18: just talked about everything, Uh, we're going to be retirement age. 709 00:38:22,760 --> 00:38:28,319 Speaker 18: If Prop thirteen wasn't here, our taxes would go up 710 00:38:28,360 --> 00:38:33,680 Speaker 18: from about three grand to fifteen or twenty grand. The 711 00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:37,280 Speaker 18: mile and a half from our house to the school 712 00:38:38,320 --> 00:38:41,120 Speaker 18: used to take five minutes. Now it takes twenty five 713 00:38:41,200 --> 00:38:43,480 Speaker 18: minutes because they put in a bike lane that no 714 00:38:43,520 --> 00:38:48,480 Speaker 18: one uses. And on the way you're explaining to your 715 00:38:48,600 --> 00:38:53,120 Speaker 18: kids why these big buildings are going up, basically apartment 716 00:38:53,200 --> 00:38:58,680 Speaker 18: complexes where there were single family homes and there's no parking. 717 00:38:58,680 --> 00:39:03,560 Speaker 1: Anywhere, and that's what they want the entire state to 718 00:39:03,600 --> 00:39:04,040 Speaker 1: look like. 719 00:39:05,080 --> 00:39:05,520 Speaker 9: It is. 720 00:39:06,160 --> 00:39:10,360 Speaker 18: The only silver lining for me is to convince my 721 00:39:10,440 --> 00:39:13,840 Speaker 18: wife not to be afraid of alligators. Because my buddy 722 00:39:13,920 --> 00:39:17,439 Speaker 18: found a really nice place in Florida, and that's kind 723 00:39:17,440 --> 00:39:20,840 Speaker 18: of my out. You know, the place is still worth something. 724 00:39:21,040 --> 00:39:25,040 Speaker 1: So I'll tell you this being here in the Central Valley. 725 00:39:25,080 --> 00:39:27,000 Speaker 1: I'm in Fresno now, but I've been in a bunch 726 00:39:27,040 --> 00:39:30,720 Speaker 1: of communities in the Central Valley Sacramento for five days. 727 00:39:31,280 --> 00:39:36,359 Speaker 1: The Central Valley is unlike other parts of California. It 728 00:39:36,560 --> 00:39:40,799 Speaker 1: is clean here. You feel safe here. It reminds me 729 00:39:40,880 --> 00:39:44,640 Speaker 1: of Santa Clarita or Valencia from the nineteen nineties. I 730 00:39:44,760 --> 00:39:48,239 Speaker 1: was really impressed. So not all cities in the state 731 00:39:48,280 --> 00:39:52,520 Speaker 1: of California are basket cases right now. So that was allanas. 732 00:39:52,800 --> 00:39:54,880 Speaker 18: I'm gonna have to look into that. Thank you for that. 733 00:39:55,120 --> 00:39:57,719 Speaker 18: I'm going to look into that option. I appreciate right. 734 00:39:58,320 --> 00:39:59,040 Speaker 1: Thank you for the call. 735 00:39:59,120 --> 00:39:59,279 Speaker 15: Sir