Federal, state inaction fuels Bay Area and national transportation ballot measures
Eight years ago Californians voted to issue nearly $10 billion in bonds to start construction of what is now considered to be the largest infrastructure project in state history: a high-speed rail system linking the Bay Area and Sacramento to Southern California.
In November, voters in just four of the nine Bay Area counties ' Santa Clara, San Francisco, Alameda and Contra Costa ' will go to the polls to decide the whether to tax themselves to pay for $12.76 billion in transportation improvements...