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Article: House of Representatives' snub on funding won't derail Gold Line.
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- San Gabriel Valley Tribune (West Covina, CA)
- Article date:
- August 2, 2007
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Byline: Fred Ortega
Aug. 2--The House of Representatives' refusal last week to include funding for the Gold Line Foothill extension in this year's transportation bill is a minor bump in the road to completion of the $1.37 billion project, officials said Tuesday.
The money lost in the bill amounted to just over $1 million for a study of transit-oriented developments along the proposed 24-mile route from East Pasadena to Montclair, said Habib Balian, CEO of the Metro Gold Line Foothill Extension Construction Authority.
Balian added that the authority was not even prepared to request funds to begin construction on the light rail extension this ...