Federal agency (within U.S. Department of Transportation)
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Grant administrator and primary federal regulator for the project
Japan opened its first bullet train in 1964. Sixty years later, the U.S. still has no line meeting the international high-speed rail threshold. On April 22, 2024, Brightline West broke ground in Las Vegas on a 218-mile route for electric trains running up to 200 mph between the Strip and the Los Angeles suburbs.
Updated May 31
Former primary federal funder; terminated all active grants to the project in 2025
California voters approved a bullet train in 2008 with a $33 billion price tag and promised to whisk passengers from San Francisco to Los Angeles by 2020. Eighteen years later, no train has run, the price tag has climbed to roughly $231 billion, and the first segment—Merced to Bakersfield in the Central Valley—won't carry passengers until 2033.
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