{"id":77853,"date":"2024-07-03T08:24:16","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T22:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=77853"},"modified":"2024-07-03T08:24:23","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T22:24:23","slug":"california-high-speed-rail-gains-final-approval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=77853","title":{"rendered":"California High-Speed Rail Gains Final Approval"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The long-awaited California&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetizen.com\/definition\/high-speed-rail\">high-speed rail<\/a>&nbsp;(HSR) project that would link San Francisco and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetizen.com\/city-profile\/los-angeles\">Los Angeles<\/a>&nbsp;just gained a final, key approval for the last segment of the route.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to an article by Jay Barmann in SFist, \u201cThe final segment that had been awaiting approval was a 38-mile stretch connecting Palmdale to Burbank, and as KTLA reports, that approval came on Thursday from the California High-Speed Rail Authority Board of Directors, which approved the final environmental impact report and route.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The segment will involve 27 miles of tunnels through mountains in the Angeles National Forest and San Gabriel Mountains leading from the San Fernando Valley to the Central Valley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Funding, however, is another issue, with the LA-to-San Francisco segment falling roughly $100 billion short. \u201cOn the plus side, the federal government has offered up a $3.4 billion grant for extending Caltrains tracks under SoMa to Salesforce Transit Center. And the work on the electrified tracks needed for the high-speed rail between SF and San Jose, which will be shared with Caltrain, is largely complete.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last segment between Palmdale and Burbank will be one of the most challenging to build.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":77854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6702,47],"tags":[10996,11131,11],"class_list":["post-77853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-california-high-speed-rail-authority","category-rail-news","tag-california","tag-los-angeles","tag-usa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77855,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77853\/revisions\/77855"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/77854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}