Asytek.160 net.railroad utzoo!decvax!cca!hplabs!menlo70!sytek!msm@sri-unix Wed May 5 10:53:16 1982 CALIFORNIA **ALERT** >From menlo70!ucbvax!MSM@MIT-MC Tue May 4 01:17:28 1982 Date: 3 May 1982 16:49-EDT From: Michael S. Maiten Subject: CALIFORNIA **ALERT** To: RAILROAD at MIT-MC All Californians reading this please take some action! The State Legislative analist has just published a thick report on how to trim $2 Billion from the state budget. Many items that can be trimed are mentioned in the mammouth report; each item is covered in a few paragraphs of text on the average. Item number 53 is a FOUR PAGE attack on the state Rail Transportation Program, the elimination of which will save only $22 million out of the $2 billion! Yet, it is precisely this total elimination that is called for in the report! If this program is dismantled, then three of the six San Diegans, both San Joaquins, and the Spirit OF California train will be eliminated! If you don't want this to happen, then letters to your state Assemblyman and state Senator should be written as soon as possible.