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At a meeting yesterday the California High Speed Rail Authority approved an application for $1 billion in federal funding, out of the $2.3 billion made available by the USDOT, out of the FY 2010 budget allocation. These are for items not covered by the ARRA grants. Here’s the list from the CHSRA release: For this [...]
In the absence of a long-term federal funding source for HSR funds, we have to take what we can get, when we can get it. In that vein, the CHSRA today announced that they are applying for another $2.3 billion in federal HSR grants. From the press release sent to me via email: Today’s announcement [...]
Last week I wrote about how HSR train manufacturing could provide a long-term boost to California’s economy. On Friday we received news that the federal government, along with the states of California and Michigan, are already thinking along these lines. US Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced that 32 companies had committed to building a US-based [...]
As we await the Federal Railroad Administration’s decision on awarding the $8 billion in HSR stimulus funds, some observers are wondering how exactly the projects will be selected – and what the role of merit and politics will be. Over at Railway Age, editor William Vantuono suggests the FRA will be caught between those two [...]
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