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California legislator wants to kill federal funding for California high speed project (www.trains.com)
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Bill would end funds for ‘any project that hasn’t laid track after a decade’

U.S. Rep. Mike Garcia (R-Santa Clarita) announced last week that he has introduced H.R. 9308, which he has dubbed the “No Frankenrail Act.”

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[-] nhickz@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

So this is the high speed rail projects live map of current construction

https://hsr.ca.gov/high-speed-rail-in-california/construction-activities-interactive-map/

Tbh its a long haul project, building new rail lines requires buying up the land , and in California its not cheap at all . Luckely the central vally line mostly follows old rail lines , but the conection from merced to sf needs to be bought up in large parts , but caltran has been electrified, a large step to have sf ready for the trains. The L.A section is not realy being worked on yet , initial service is set to be from Bakersfield to merced .

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