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new travel capacity to California’s constrained freeway, highway and airport Terminal via blended Caltrain service. Caltrain will be electrified with signal
capacities, especially as its population continues to grow. CHSRA, in partnership improvements for higher speeds between San Jose and San Francisco as part of
with the FRA, which has provided $3.6 billion in High-Speed and Intercity the blended system and as a result of the Northern California High-Speed Rail
Passenger Rail funding, chose to begin construction in the San Joaquin Valley. memorandum of understanding (MOU). Revenue service is scheduled for 2028.
The 2018 Plan implements the Phase 1 System in 2033 at a cost of $77 billion. It
There are five segments of the project under development in the SCAG Region:
does not discuss the Phase 2 system.
z Bakersfield to Palmdale
In May, 2019, CHSRA released its Project Update report to the California State
z Palmdale to Hollywood Burbank Airport Legislature. This document updated the 2018 Business Plan and reflects a new
z Hollywood Burbank Airport to Los Angeles direction from the Governor’s Office. It again changes the boundaries of the
IOS. The new IOS proposed is from Merced to Bakersfield via Fresno, a 171
z Los Angeles to Anaheim
mile segment, with revenue service anticipated towards the end of 2028. The
z Los Angeles to San Diego (Phase Two) implementation date of the Phase 1 segment remains unchanged at 2033.
All five segments have produced alternatives analysis documents, and are in
the environmental review process. CHSRA’s 2012 Business Plan introduced a
new construction and implementation approach called the “Blended Approach,” CHSRA BUSINESS PLANS AND FUNDING
which calls for investing in existing rail services for speed and service TIMELINE
improvements in the “bookends” (Bay Area and Southern California) to improve In April, 2012, the CHSRA released its 2012 Revised Business Plan. This plan
connectivity until the entire CA HSR system is built in phases over time. introduced the “blended/bookend” approach that calls for early investments
in the existing passenger rail networks of Southern and Northern California
CHSRA officially broke ground on Jan. 6, 2015 in the San Joaquin Valley in to connect to the CA HSR as it is built in phases. The 2012 Business Plan also
the City of Fresno. In August 2013, the CHSRA executed its first design-build significantly adjusted the cost and schedule, and committed to constructing the
contract, known as Construction Package 1(CP 1). This 29-mile segment runs southern end first from the Initial Construction Segment (ICS) in the San Joaquin
from Avenue 17 in Madera south to East American Avenue in Fresno. Since Valley rather than the northern end. The plan included a $30 billion reduction in
that time, CHSRA has awarded Construction Package 2-3 (CP 2-3), which covers cost, from $98 billion to $68 billion. (The original Phase One cost was $43 billion
the next 65 miles from Fresno south to one mile north of the Tulare–Kern per Proposition 1A.) These cost savings are largely due to the “Phase 1 Blended
County line near Bakersfield, and CP 4, which includes the next 30 miles to just System” from San Jose to L.A. Union Station.
north of Shafter, CA. These construction packages represent the current 119
miles under construction. In April 2014, the CHSRA released its 2014 Business Plan, which built on and
updated the 2012 Revised Business Plan, and coincided with implementation of
The CHSRA released its 2018 Business Plan in April, 2018, which redefined the SB 1029. SB 1029 (Budget Act of 2012) was signed in to law in June 2012 and
initial operating segment (IOS) from just north of Bakersfield to Madera to approved almost $8 billion in federal and state funds for the construction of
downtown Bakersfield to San Jose, dubbed the “Silicon Valley to Central Valley the first segment in the San Joaquin Valley and 15 bookend and connectivity
Line.” This line would operate between San Jose and downtown Bakersfield, projects throughout the state.
including a northern spur to Merced. This will extend true high-speed service
from Merced to San Jose, and connect to the new San Francisco Transbay The 2016 Business Plan introduced the “Valley to Valley” IOS, from San

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