In case you missed it:
Yesterday, CBS 60 Minutes featured a segment on infrastructure. The segment focused on the CAHSR project and some of the challenges with building the 500- mile project. Together with California High-Speed Rail (CAHSR) Board Member Anthony Williams, I was grateful for the incredible opportunity to speak to our nation’s historic, first-ever high-speed rail project. A few key progress points we will continue to highlight include:
Where we are:
- 119 miles of the project are under construction with 59 out of 95 structures, bridges and viaducts now complete.
- More than 2,250 parcels needed for Right of Way (ROW) to build the 119-mile segment have been successfully negotiated and ROW is more than 99.7% percent complete for the Central Valley Segment.
- As many as 1,700 construction workers are dispatched daily on the project in career paying jobs.
- Over 16,400 construction jobs have been created by the project thus far, more than 80% which have occurred since the beginning of Governor Newsom’s administration.
- Nearly 1,000 small businesses engaged with contracts.
Where we’re going:
- All necessary civil works and structures on the 119-mile segment are projected to be substantially complete this year to pave the way for track installation.
- The Track and Systems Construction Contract will be awarded this summer, and track laying will commence this year.
- Downtown San Francisco to downtown Los Angeles is FULLY environmentally cleared and construction-ready with one remaining project segment for Phase 1, Los Angeles – Anaheim, which will be completed this year.
Good job, @CaHSRA. You’re going first for the whole hemisphere! Keep it up.