Governor Gavin Newsom unveiled California’s State Rail Plan on January 7, 2025, a $310 billion initiative to create a zero-emission rail network connecting the state’s regions by 2050. The plan emerged alongside the start of track-laying for the high-speed rail in Kern County, advancing California’s largest transit infrastructure project. The technical specifications reveal the plan’s scope: increasing rail and transit usage from 2% to 20% of total miles traveled, translating to 200 million daily passenger miles shifting from highways to railways. Each high-speed train will replace 612 passenger vehicles on California’s congested corridors, according to the official planning documents. “California … Continue reading California’s $310B High-Speed Rail Plan Targets 900K Jobs by 2050