A handful of Democratic lawmakers from California sent a request on Dec. 20 to U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg for $536 million to keep the state’s high-speed rail project running.
The grant money would support the design of a tunneling project from the Central Valley toward California’s largest population centers, according to the lawmakers.
“By preparing for future final design and construction of complex tunnels in this corridor, the project will advance both state and federal goals to improve safety, expand economic strength and global competitiveness, address equity issues, and implement sustainability practices to confront climate change,” the lawmakers wrote in the letter….