The federal transportation agency agrees to restore nearly $1 billion in funding for high-speed rail, but the project is still in a deep funding hole.
Organized labor has provided crucial support for the high-speed rail project, discouraging any straying from California’s current plan.
Gov. Gavin Newsom is under pressure to allocate a significant amount of unexpected tax revenue to the bullet train project as a signal to federal officials that the state is fully committed, according to persons close to the negotiations. Earlier this week, the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee held a marathon 19-hour hearing on infrastructure, which included an extended discussion of the California project.
The grant was originally made in 2010 after other states backed out of high-speed rail projects and declined to take the federal support. The California project already had won another $2.5-billion grant from the Obama administration’s stimulus program, known as the American Recover and Reinvestment Act., and federal grant experts said such terminations were rare in cases that did not involve fraud but were merely behind schedule.
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