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High-Speed Rail Authority Clears Final Segment of Bay Area-to-LA Route
The California High-Speed Rail Authority board of directors has approved the final environmental document for the 38-mile segment between Palmdale and Burbank. The approval of the Final Environmental Impact Report/Environmental Impact Statement is the last environmental clearance between downtown San Francisco and downtown Los Angeles.
At speeds up to 220 mph, this section would connect the Antelope Valley to the San Fernando Valley in a roughly 17-minute train trip, according to the authority. The board’s actions move this section closer to being “shovel-ready” as funding becomes available, marking the third certification of an environmental document in the Southern California region and the second in the Los Angeles Basin since 2022.
“This is a transformative project for the state of California as a whole,” said Brian Kelly, CEO of the authority. He added that the approval represented an “a major milestone for connecting San Francisco to Los Angeles in less than three hours. It’s also transformational for Los Angeles County, connecting Palmdale to Burbank in a way that’s never been possible before.”
- ◦Policy/Gov't
