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On Thursday, President Obama will follow up the State of the Union address with an announcement that his administration is releasing $8 billion in funding for high-speed rail lines. This program ...
The largest project for American high-speed rail is the California High-Speed Rail network, which was authorized by voters with Proposition 1A in 2008. In August 2013, the Tutor Perini Corporation signed a $1-billion contract to begin construction of the first phase in 2014. [35] Construction began in early 2015.
The California High Speed Rail (CHSR) project, designed to run 171 miles from Merced to Bakersfield while connecting to existing rail, could offer up a total of 350 miles of rail between Los ...
Even $66 billion in federal funding for rail in the 2021 infrastructure package is but a drop in the bucket of what it would take to build high-speed rail. The cost to build a such a network ...
In September 2012, the Obama administration gave California's high-speed rail project the green light to streamline the permitting process for the 114-mile (183 km) section of the project which starts just north of Fresno in Madera County and runs south to Bakersfield.
This article provides a list of operational and under construction (or approved) high-speed rail networks, listed by country or region. While the International Union of Railways defines high-speed rail as public transport by rail at speeds of at least 200 km/h (124 mph) for upgraded tracks and 250 km/h (155 mph) or faster for new tracks, this article lists all the systems and lines that ...
The link would tie "together a seamless high-speed rail network that will transform transportation in our region and beyond,” said Arthur Sohikian, the agency's executive director.
As of January 2010, Scranton, PA and Binghamton, NY did not win high-speed rail funding announced by President Obama. The only funded high-speed rail project in Pennsylvania is between Harrisburg and Philadelphia. However, construction on the cutoff at the New Jersey end of the cutoff began in late 2011.