Railroad industry news about: The American Planning Association’s California – Northern Section, California High-Speed Rail Authorit, 2023 Excellence Award for Advancing Diversity and Social Change in Honor of Paul Davidoff, Boris Lipkin. From the editors of Progressive Railroading Magazine
It might be time to dust off those dreams of the long-elusive high-speed rail coming to downtown San Francisco, but these dreams are contingent on the federal government paying for roughly half of the $6.7 billion price tag.
The recently approved state budget directs $4.2 billion in bond funding to the Bakersfield-to-Merced leg of California’s long-awaited high-speed rail project.
The political wrangling has finally ended, and the last $4.2 billion in the state's high-speed rail bond funding is being spent on the rail system in the newly approved state budget.