The California High-Speed Rail Authority has responded to the Federal Rail Authority’s plan to terminate $4 billion in federal funding for the Los Angeles-to-San Francisco high-speed rail project.
Its response elaborates on its plans for continuing initial work on a 119-mile segment between Madera, which has a population of nearly 70,000, and Poplar Avenue in Kern County, which is near Shafter, a small city of just over 20,000 residents northwest of Bakersfield.
This segment is being expanded into the 171-mile “early operating segment” that will carry passengers all the way between Bakersfield and Merced by 2033.
According to CHSRA, the segment will cost between $32.7 billion to $36.3 billion, but is on track to be completed on time. The project has received enough re-authorized funding from California’s cap-and-trade program, which charges companies for carbon dioxide emissions, to cover its $6.5 billion shortfall by providing $1 billion per year.
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Author: Ray Hilbrich
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