In Transit: What’s the Status of California’s High-Speed Rail Project?

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🗓️ 12 January 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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How soon will Californians be able to travel between Los Angeles and San Francisco by high-speed rail? In welcome news, the California High-Speed Rail Authority received nearly $3.1 billion in federal funding last month to advance work on the project. Environmental reviews are largely complete for the 500-mile route, and construction has begun on bridges and tunnels in the Central Valley. But the cost for the entire project is now expected to reach $128 billion, four times higher than was estimated when voters first approved it in 2008. In this installment of our In Transit series, we speak to the CEO of the California High-Speed Rail Authority to get updates and take your questions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:27.6	Coming up on forum, what's happening with high-speed rail?
1:30.9	And the promise of an electrified train that will take us from Los Angeles to San Francisco in less than three hours.
1:37.8	You may have seen the national headlines last month that the bullet train got a cash infusion of more than $3 billion from the federal government.
1:45.3	So what does that mean for the massive infrastructure project that's now projected to cost
1:50.2	well above $100 billion?
1:53.2	As part of our In Transit series, we have the California High Speed Rail Authority's CEO, Brian Kelly,
1:58.7	with us to answer those questions.
2:05.0	The status of high-speed rail in California as we begin 2024.
2:06.7	That's next on Forum.
2:11.2	Welcome to Forum. I'm Mina Kim.
2:21.4	In 2008, California voters approved nearly $10 billion in bonds to begin construction of a high-speed rail line linking the northern and southern parts of the state.
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