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California high speed project to receive $3.1 billion in FRA funding

 

December 6, 2023

 

Money will help advance San Joaquin Valley construction, purchase trainsets

 

A rendering of a California high speed train. A new federal grant will be used to buy the first trainsets for the California system. California High-Speed Rail Authority

 

WASHINGTON — The California High-Speed Rail Authority will receive about $3.1 billion for projects to continue development and construction in the San Joaquin Valley, U.S. Reps. Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) and Jim Costa (D-Fresno) announced in statements on Tuesday.

 

The funds will come from the Federal Railroad Administration, under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law’s Federal-State Partnership for Intercity Passenger Rail program. It is the largest single infusion of federal money into the project since it was approved by voters in 2008, KTLA-TV reports.

 

 

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Railway Age, 12/6/23

 

USDOT: Nearly $3.1B for CHSRA

 

The U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) on Dec. 5 awarded the California High-Speed Rail Authority (CHSRA) nearly $3.1 billion in grant funding for continued progress on the country’s first electrified 220-mph high-speed rail system.

 

According to CHSRA, the grant, which was made possible by President Biden’s Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) and is the largest the Authority has received, will “build on the project’s ongoing success, which has created more than 12,000 good paying union jobs to the region.”

 

The $3.073 billion will advance work in California’s Central Valley and include:

• Funding six electric trains for testing and use.
• Funding design of train facilities.
• Funding design and construction of the Fresno station.
• Funding final design and early works, including right-of-way acquisition and utility relocation on the extensions to Merced to Bakersfield.
• Funding construction in the Central Valley

 

 

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Reuters 12/8/23

 

California high-speed rail faces challenges after US award

 

(Reuters) - California's ambitious high-speed rail project that aims to move travelers from San Francisco to the Los Angeles basin in under three hours still faces significant funding challenges despite a $3.1 billion federal award.

 

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Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg told reporters Thursday the California project "is facing a lot of the challenges that come with being the very first at anything" and added winning rail awards faced an "extraordinary level of scrutiny."

 

The costs for the California high-speed rail project, which voters approved $10 billion in 2008, have risen sharply and the authority has not identified key funding needed for the project that has faced numerous delays.

 

The full San Francisco to Los Angeles project was initially estimated to cost around $40 billion but has now jumped to between $88 billion and $128 billion.

 

 

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California High-Speed Rail Awarded over $3 billion in Federal Grants

 

California High-Speed Rail Authority

 

Dec 8, 2023

 

In the biggest award of federal funding to date to the project, the California High-Speed Rail Authority won nearly $3.1 billion in federal grant funds from the Federal-State Partnership for Intercity Passenger Rail Program to help complete work in the Central Valley project section. This is a huge boost to the project and its progress.