In Gov. Bobby Jindal's official Republican response to President Obama's address to Congress on Tuesday, the governor was harshly critical of an $8 billion mass transit appropriation in the stimulus package. The governor called the money pot "wasteful."
According to this article by Times-Picayune Baton Rouge Bureau Chief Robert Travis Scott, the governor will ask for money from that fund to build a passenger rail line between Baton Rouge and New Orleans.
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