The Burlingame City Council unanimously voted to move forward with putting $3.8 million in city funds toward a redesign of a project to raise the rail line above the road without a Broadway train station. 

In March, councilmembers were dismayed to learn that the city’s original plans for the grade separation at the dangerous Broadway intersection with a rebuilt train station — were likely to cost $889 million total

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There is no "Fiscal Cliff" - our transit agencies are very well funded. That's why we have 28 of them.

There is however a "Public Transit Grift" going on where board members at MTC, SMCTA, C/CAG will do anything to move money away from transit and towards car centric development.

"Grade Separation" is just one example of this grifter move. Caltrain does not need the grade separation they own the right-of-way. The county doesn't need grade separation. Local cars and drivers want grade separation.

Every city needs to decide if they can afford it. And yet SMCTA and C/CAG and Caltrain are deeply involved in county wide grade separation projects and their financing. So they move public transit funding coming from MTC, SMCTA, Measure A&W towards more car projects.

Now compare that to ped/bike bridges across ECR, Caltrain, 101. In those cases C/CAG, Caltrain, Caltrans, SMCTA say it's none of their business and its all on the city itself if they want that. That's why they all talk about Burlingame Grade Separation but keep quiet after sabotaging the Holly Street and Hillsdale Blvd ped/bike bridges with their highway expansion.

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