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Lucille Roybal-Allard: Building a high speed rail route along existing rights of way in Los Angeles may minimize the negative impact to other…

On the recordMarch 9, 2009
Building a high speed rail route along existing rights of way in Los Angeles may minimize the negative impact to other communities, but I fear that it will add to the damages already done decades ago when the new interstate system divided and even destroyed poor communities.
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Lucille Roybal-Allard
California

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Concerns about high-speed rail harming poor communities already affected by infrastructure.

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