Los Angeles-The Trump Administration Signaled Wednsday that It Intends to Cut Off Federal Funding for a long-delayed california high-friend railway project pladued by multiplelion-dlar cost Following the release of a scathing federal report that concluded there is “No viable path” to complete even a partial section of the line.
VOTERS first authorized $ 10 billion in borrowed funds in 2008 to cover a third of the estimated cost, with a promise the train would be up and runing by 20. Five Years Bey20. Been Laid and Its Estimated Price Tag Has Balloned to over $ 100 Billion.
In a letter to the california high-sped Rail authority, which oversees the project, federal Railroad Administration Acting Acting Administration Administration Administration Acting Administration Administration Act Connecting the State’s Major Cities has been reduced to a blueprint for “a 119-mile track to nowhere.”
After A $ 4 billion federal investment, the california agency “Has conned the taxpayer … with no viable plan to deliver even that partial segment on time,” FEEELY WROTE.
State Officials Defended What’s Known as the Nation’s Larget Infrasture Project and Said they Remain Committed to Construction, Thought it Clear What Funding Today is the Federal Support It’s withdrawn. Feeley noted the fraction seek repayment of the federal funds but is not proposing to claw back theose dollars at this time.
Carol Dahmen, The State Authority’s Chief of Strategic Communications, Said in a statement that the federal conclusions are misguided and “do not reflected the substASTIAL POGRESS MADE to Deliver California. ”
Dahmen noted that the mayority of the funding for the line has been provided by the state and that democratic gov. Gavin Newsom’s Budget Proposal Bold Extend at Least $ 1 Billion a year for 20 years to complete an initial segment of the line.
State Officials are focused on a Stretch Connecting The Central Valley Cities of Bakersfield and Merced, which is set to be operating by 2033.
The state agency has about a month to formally respond to the fra with the fraction, after the grants count be terminated.
State Sen. Tony Strickland, A Republican from Huntington Beach Who is Vice Chair of the Transportation Committee, said that “Commonsense has prevised” and Urged the Legislature ‘ Funds from the railway line to lowering gas pris or investment in viable construction projects.
“Let’s stop wasting california’s hard-earned taxpayer dollars,” Strickland said.
There is no known source for the billions of dollars that would be needed to complete the line.
California High-Speed Rail Authority Ceo IAN Choudri suggested in April that Private Investors Bold Step in and Fill the Funding Gap For the Project that Promise Nonstop Rail Service BetWeen SAN FRANCOSCO and Los angeles in under three hours. At the time, He Acknowledged that even if Funding is SECRED, It Might Take Nearly two more decades to complete most of that segment.
President Donald Trump said in may that his administration will not continue to final to fund the line. “That train is the WORST COST Overrun I’ve Ever Seen,” Trump Told Reporters at the time, calling it “totally out of control.”
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