Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill Wednesday that and an expansion of Los Angeles Union Station.
The $68 billion project will connect San Francisco to Southern California when completed. The first phase will transport riders between Bakersfield and Madera at 220 miles per hour. The state legislature approved $8 billion for the first phase of the line July 6.
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In the greater Los Angeles area, the high speed rail train will travel through the San Fernando Valley, reaching stations in Sylmar and Burbank.
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In Los Angeles, the law authorizes $115 million for the regional connector transit corridor that will eventually connect the Blue Line to the Gold Line and the Expo Line. Also included in the law is $350 million to expand Union Station downtown so that trains can leave and enter the station in both directions (currently, they enter and exit the station in the same direction).
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This article was compiled with information from City News Service.
Americans are so stupid it's embarrassing.
I concur! You left out another important fact: And that is it is a big Union project which will inevitably cost the CA tax payer more as there will be over runs and Political paybacks to those who are currently in power. Ca is huge with an estimated population of 30 Million, but the population density here does not even justify this boon doggle project. Hopefully, the CA taxpayers revolt to derail the rail.
There is only good transportation in those cities...not the entire country. Again I will show some math...lets hope you passed that grade in our crappy school system...where the money should be spent. Paris metro area have 1847 people living there per square miles - Los Angeles have 25.53 people living per square mile !!!!!!! how can you accommodate for that stop living in this pretend utopia and THINK...but I guess you are also a product of the public school system that is filled with pedophiles etc. All you are driven towards is a empty meaningless SAT test. Educate our kids and maybe they can figure out the mess we will leave them with. I was in London a few months ago and went to visit some friends in Paris and took the train - the one under the see - what a nightmare that was. Next time I will fly for sure - like all the other times before. I've been in Germany and Japan many times. Public transportation is all fine - in the BIG DENSE cities. I've taken public transportation in Hong Kong and it rules. It is clean and fast and cheap but people live in 60-100 story buildings - if you want to give up your house and live in a sweat box like that - then go ahead because that is the sacrifice you will have to make be to able to have a functioning public transportation. Travel go to places and do the math. IT WONT WORK HERE IN CALIFORNIA - it is TOO BIG
Listening to Ted Lieu tell me why he is in favor of the high speed rail made me quiver. An $80 billion project(as of now) that he says will be ready for willing travelers in 30 years, yes you heard it right. That is if they get adequate ridership. Heard a businessman describe his experience using high speed trains in China, the trains leave every 8 minutes and carry 1800 people and they are full. Will that be the case here, you take a guess.
The lack of high-speed rail is a reflection of the economic weakness and misplaced priorities that have allowed the U.S. to fall behind Europe, Japan and China. We have battleships galore, but Americans have only a car-centric transportation system that is polluting the Earth. And no, the basic infrastructure should not be turned over to money-grubbing capitalists. The interstate highway system was built in the last century without giving it away to the 1 percent. A network of high-speed trains can, and should be, a national asset owned and operated by the public.
This is a bald-faced attempt to give away Trillions of dollars to special interests. The State's voters are very tired of this kind of pandering and sleaze! You might as well say we are going to build a stairway to the moon out of imaginerium; that is how realistic this project is!
Yeah I took the Eurostar from London to Paris. It was incredibly convenient. It was also impeccably clean. On the train my wife and I took a nap and woke up in Paris. Not to bad. Also we traveled all throughout Europe by train. It was a great experience and there never a place we couldn't get to. This right-wing diatribe nonsense is killing me. There always some reason we can't move forward.
Actually, I think This Gov. Brown is looking for a legacy to match is father's water project, nice to not necessary.