Overdue, overbudget high-speed rail just got $3.1 billion boost -- will trains ever roll?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : Committed funding includes the 2008 bond fund, about $750 million to $1 billion a year from the state's Cap-and-Trade program that provides incentives for reducing industrial emission of gases blamed for warming the climate, and $3.5 billion in federal funding from the Obama-era American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and transportation appropriations.
58% : A: On Tuesday, officials announced the California High Speed Rail Authority will receive $3.1 billion in federal funding to support construction of a 220-mph, two-track electrified high-speed passenger rail line connecting the cities of Merced, Fresno, and Bakersfield.
58% : The $3.1 billion goes toward $8 billion in additional federal funding the California High Speed Rail Authority has been seeking for the project.

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