Trump’s Funding Threats Build a Case for Private High-Speed Rail

Trump's Funding Threats Build a Case for Private High-Speed Rail

(Bloomberg) — California has helped create much of the technology powering the 21st century. But travel between Los Angeles and San Francisco by train still feels trapped in the past.

Trump’s Funding Threats Build a Case for Private High-Speed Rail

While California High-Speed Rail’s federal funding is in doubt, privately led Brightline West has been chugging along.

High speed rail “priority” for government

The Minister of Infrastructure has said today that the investments planned in the National Railway Plan (PFN) are to be carried out “now without delays”, and highlighted that the privatisation of TAP and the high-speed line are “priorities” for the new government.

The Bureau for the Integration of the Railway in Granada has agreed on the comprehensive preliminary draft of the action and the basic project of the railway station The potato of the integration of the train in Granada, in the hands of City Council and Junta

“We have to actually finish Ferro 2020 and start meeting deadlines”, said Miguel Pinto Luz, Minister of Infrastructures, who recalled the “ Challenges” of the new airport.

“The privatization of TAP is to continue, this is the priority that was already of the 24th Government and will continue, (…) the construction of the new airport (…), the continuity of the PFN, now meeting deadlines and putting those seven years of delay of Ferrovia 2020 in the past. We really have to finish Ferrovia 2020 […] The content Execution of the railway plan without delays, TAP and high speed are priorities of the new government (with a…