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New Administration Should Take a Hard Look at Transit Projects

As one might expect, the costliest and least defensible projects are concentrated in California.
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New Administration Should Take a Hard Look at Transit Projects
A Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) train leaves the Rockridge station in Oakland, Calif., on March 15, 2023. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
Marc Joffe
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The Biden administration left Washington with a queue of $64 billion in transit capital projects at various stages of the federal grant process. The new Trump administration should remove most (if not all) of these projects from grant consideration.
Marc Joffe
Marc Joffe
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Marc Joffe is a fellow at California Policy Center. He has previously covered California High-Speed Rail for Reason Foundation and the Cato Institute, where he was a federalism and state policy analyst. After a long career in the financial industry, including a senior director role at Moody’s Analytics, he transitioned to policy research, having worked until recently at Reason Foundation. Joffe’s research focuses on government finance and state policy issues.
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