Sacramento Waits For High Speed Rail
Sacramento Waits For High Speed Rail
By: Lonnie Wong
FOX40 News
May 7, 2009
SACRAMENTO - California's High Speed Rail Authority has joined the State Transportation Board in applying for federal stimulus money made available for mass transit. It also made an agreement to cooperate with the City of Sacramento to help plan the line which will eventually reach Sacramento.
Although Mayor Kevin Johnson applauded the efforts, he is also disappointed that the state capitol wasn't a part of the first phase of the line, which will run from Los Angeles to San Francisco. The 40 billion dollar project will connect the state with an electric bullet train that runs at 225 miles an hour.
Rail officials say it may take 20 years for the line to eventually reach Sacramento. But Johnson said there are ways to speed the process using separate local and private funds to help plan the a second phase route from Merced to Sacramento.
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