metro.net
Los Angeles County
Metropolitan Transportation Authority
One Gateway Plaza
Los Angeles, CA 90012-2952
For more information contact:
Michael Turner
Government Relations Manager,
State Affairs
213.922.2122
Patricia Torres Bruno
Administrator,
State/Local Affairs
213.922.4145
Linking with high-speed rail.
Marisa Yeager
Administrator,
Federal A=airs
213.922.2262
April 2009
Los Angeles County
Metropolitan Transportation Authority
High-Speed Rail Update
09-1766 ©2009 lacmta
Ra; Hamparian
Government Relations Manager,
Federal A=airs
213.922.3769
The U.S. Congress and President Obama have made
High Speed Rail (HSR) a key component of our nation’s
transportation future by including $8 billion for HSR
in the recently adopted American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). President Obama
is also committed to providing $1 billion a year for
the next >ve years for HSR in the budgets he will present
to the U.S. Congress. In November of 2008, California’s
voters approved Proposition 1A allocating almost $10
billion to HSR. Southern California has the opportunity
to invigorate our economy, create thousands of jobs
and improve our environment and our collective quality
of life by seizing the day and the funding to
build a modern HSR system.
High-Speed Rail For LA County
High-Speed Rail Map
> High-Speed Rail and Metro
California voters approved Proposition 1A in November 2008, authorizing the State to issue
$9.95 billion in bonds to construct a high speed rail network linking northern and southern
California with trains capable of reaching 220 mph. The U.S. Congress and President Obama
have made High Speed Rail (HSR) a key component of our nation’s transportation future by
including $8 billion for HSR in the recently adopted American Recovery and Reinvestment
Act of 2009 (ARRA).
LA COUNTY
PASADENA
BURBANK
Because California’s high-speed rail line will serve Los Angeles, Metro will have an active
roll in developing its routing and attendant facilities within Los Angeles County.
SAN FERNANDO VALLEY
EAST LA
MID-WILSHIRE
SAN FRANCISCO
SANTA MONICA
SACRAMENTO
> What High-Speed Rail Will Do for Me
Improve travel time. High-speed rail will o=er signi>cant advantages over airplanes and cars.
Estimated travel times include: Anaheim – Los Angeles, 20 minutes; Burbank – Bakers>eld,
49 minutes; Los Angeles – San Francisco, 2 hours, 38 minutes; and Los Angeles – San Diego,
1 hour, 38 minutes.
Reduce gridlock on highways and ease congestion at airports. By 2030, projections indicate that
high-speed trains will carry 45% of travelers between the Los Angeles and San Francisco
areas, with 26% traveling by air and 29% by automobile.
LAX
STOCKTON
Sustain the environment. High-speed trains consume only one-third as much energy per
passenger as an airplane and one->fth as much as an automobile. The network proposed
for California is projected to save 12.7 million barrels of oil per year by 2030 and remove
12 billion pounds of CO2 from our air.
NORWALK
SOUTH BAY
SAN JOSE
GILROY
High-speed trains have operated for many years in countries around the world including
Japan, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, South Korea and China. By 2020, most of Europe
will be interconnected by a compatible, electri>ed, standard-gauge, steel-wheel-on-steel-rail
high-speed train network.
FRESNO
> What High-Speed Rail Means for Southern California
VISALIA
The California High-Speed Rail Authority in Sacramento is tasked with all planning,
design, environmental impact and operational phases of the statewide rail network with
construction scheduled to begin by 2011. Plans call for the route to initially link San
Francisco and Sacramento through the Central Valley with Los Angeles and San Diego
via Riverside and Ontario. Los Angeles would serve as a major terminus.
LONG BEACH
BAKERSFIELD
SANTA BARBARA
PALMDALE
Initial plans call for Union Station to serve as the hub linking:
LOS ANGELES
UC RIVERSIDE
Existing
Metro Rail and Transitways
IRVINE
ESCONDIDO
SAN DIEGO
Metrolink/Amtrak
California Rail Systems
Under Study and Construction
California High-Speed Rail
Metro Rail and Transitway
Expansion
Not to scale
Los Angeles and Orange County. This route would run along an existing rail corridor
connecting Union Station with a proposed terminal in Anaheim. The route could later
be extended as far south as Irvine with a new rail facility at the Irvine Transportation Center.
Los Angeles, Riverside and San Diego. Existing rail corridors would be used to link Los
Angeles with Riverside and San Diego via Ontario Airport. Riverside would be linked to
San Diego by following the I-15/I-215 freeway corridor with a stop at Murrieta/Temecula.
The line would then proceed to downtown San Diego with track positioned adjacent the
existing rail line.
Los Angeles and Palmdale. Direct high-speed rail service would connect Union Station
with the Antelope Valley community of Palmdale via multimodal stations in Burbank
and San Fernando/Sylmar.
High-Speed Rail For LA County
High-Speed Rail Map
> High-Speed Rail and Metro
California voters approved Proposition 1A in November 2008, authorizing the State to issue
$9.95 billion in bonds to construct a high speed rail network linking northern and southern
California with trains capable of reaching 220 mph. The U.S. Congress and President Obama
have made High Speed Rail (HSR) a key component of our nation’s transportation future by
including $8 billion for HSR in the recently adopted American Recovery and Reinvestment
Act of 2009 (ARRA).
LA COUNTY
PASADENA
BURBANK
Because California’s high-speed rail line will serve Los Angeles, Metro will have an active
roll in developing its routing and attendant facilities within Los Angeles County.
SAN FERNANDO VALLEY
EAST LA
MID-WILSHIRE
SAN FRANCISCO
SANTA MONICA
SACRAMENTO
> What High-Speed Rail Will Do for Me
Improve travel time. High-speed rail will o=er signi>cant advantages over airplanes and cars.
Estimated travel times include: Anaheim – Los Angeles, 20 minutes; Burbank – Bakers>eld,
49 minutes; Los Angeles – San Francisco, 2 hours, 38 minutes; and Los Angeles – San Diego,
1 hour, 38 minutes.
Reduce gridlock on highways and ease congestion at airports. By 2030, projections indicate that
high-speed trains will carry 45% of travelers between the Los Angeles and San Francisco
areas, with 26% traveling by air and 29% by automobile.
LAX
STOCKTON
Sustain the environment. High-speed trains consume only one-third as much energy per
passenger as an airplane and one->fth as much as an automobile. The network proposed
for California is projected to save 12.7 million barrels of oil per year by 2030 and remove
12 billion pounds of CO2 from our air.
NORWALK
SOUTH BAY
SAN JOSE
GILROY
High-speed trains have operated for many years in countries around the world including
Japan, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, South Korea and China. By 2020, most of Europe
will be interconnected by a compatible, electri>ed, standard-gauge, steel-wheel-on-steel-rail
high-speed train network.
FRESNO
> What High-Speed Rail Means for Southern California
VISALIA
The California High-Speed Rail Authority in Sacramento is tasked with all planning,
design, environmental impact and operational phases of the statewide rail network with
construction scheduled to begin by 2011. Plans call for the route to initially link San
Francisco and Sacramento through the Central Valley with Los Angeles and San Diego
via Riverside and Ontario. Los Angeles would serve as a major terminus.
LONG BEACH
BAKERSFIELD
SANTA BARBARA
PALMDALE
Initial plans call for Union Station to serve as the hub linking:
LOS ANGELES
UC RIVERSIDE
Existing
Metro Rail and Transitways
IRVINE
ESCONDIDO
SAN DIEGO
Metrolink/Amtrak
California Rail Systems
Under Study and Construction
California High-Speed Rail
Metro Rail and Transitway
Expansion
Not to scale
Los Angeles and Orange County. This route would run along an existing rail corridor
connecting Union Station with a proposed terminal in Anaheim. The route could later
be extended as far south as Irvine with a new rail facility at the Irvine Transportation Center.
Los Angeles, Riverside and San Diego. Existing rail corridors would be used to link Los
Angeles with Riverside and San Diego via Ontario Airport. Riverside would be linked to
San Diego by following the I-15/I-215 freeway corridor with a stop at Murrieta/Temecula.
The line would then proceed to downtown San Diego with track positioned adjacent the
existing rail line.
Los Angeles and Palmdale. Direct high-speed rail service would connect Union Station
with the Antelope Valley community of Palmdale via multimodal stations in Burbank
and San Fernando/Sylmar.
metro.net
Los Angeles County
Metropolitan Transportation Authority
One Gateway Plaza
Los Angeles, CA 90012-2952
For more information contact:
Michael Turner
Government Relations Manager,
State Affairs
213.922.2122
Patricia Torres Bruno
Administrator,
State/Local Affairs
213.922.4145
Linking with high-speed rail.
Marisa Yeager
Administrator,
Federal A=airs
213.922.2262
April 2009
Los Angeles County
Metropolitan Transportation Authority
High-Speed Rail Update
09-1766 ©2009 lacmta
Ra; Hamparian
Government Relations Manager,
Federal A=airs
213.922.3769
The U.S. Congress and President Obama have made
High Speed Rail (HSR) a key component of our nation’s
transportation future by including $8 billion for HSR
in the recently adopted American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). President Obama
is also committed to providing $1 billion a year for
the next >ve years for HSR in the budgets he will present
to the U.S. Congress. In November of 2008, California’s
voters approved Proposition 1A allocating almost $10
billion to HSR. Southern California has the opportunity
to invigorate our economy, create thousands of jobs
and improve our environment and our collective quality
of life by seizing the day and the funding to
build a modern HSR system.