{"id":61515,"date":"2023-12-05T16:35:34","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T00:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=61515"},"modified":"2023-12-05T16:35:34","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T00:35:34","slug":"california-to-receive-6-billion-federal-investment-for-high-speed-rail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=61515","title":{"rendered":"California to Receive $6 Billion Federal Investment for High-Speed Rail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>December 5, 2023<\/strong> &#8211; Today, California was notified that the Biden-Harris Administration is awarding $6 billion to the state to build high-speed rail, investing in the whole system &#8211; San Francisco, Los Angeles and the Central Valley, creating connectivity north, south and with our neighbors to the east. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">California High-Speed Rail Authority will receive nearly $3.1 billion for construction in the Central Valley, supporting the overall end goal of connecting San Francisco to Los Angeles. Another important rail project, Brightline, will receive $3 billion to connect Los Angeles to Las Vegas with 80% of the project&#8217;s construction in California benefiting the state\u2019s economy and labor market.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;California is delivering on the first 220-mph, electric high-speed rail project in the nation,&#8221; said Governor Gavin Newsom. &#8220;This show of support from the Biden-Harris Administration is a vote of confidence in today\u2019s vision and comes at a critical turning point, providing the project new momentum.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The $3.1 billion for California High-Speed Rail Authority is the single largest grant for the program and comes from President Biden\u2019s historic Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">High-speed rail has created 12,000 union jobs to date and will provide affordable and clean transportation across the state.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 5, 2023 &#8211; Today, California&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-ca-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61516,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61515\/revisions\/61516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}