After more than a decade, the project received the state voters’ approval in November 2008 through Proposition 1A for Safe, Reliable High-Speed Passenger Train Bond Act that authorises $9.95bn in bonds to establish a clean and efficient high-speed train service linking Southern California, Sacramento San Joaquin Valley and the San Francisco Bay Area. The California high-speed train project is the first high-speed train system to be implemented in the US. A detailed study showed that high-speed lines are economically, environmentally and socially profitable, and one was therefore proposed in 2000. There were three options: increasing airport capacity, constructing new roads or introducing high-speed train services between major cities. The government had to upgrade its transport system considering the population growth estimates for California. The project will connect San Francisco to Los Angeles in less than three hours at a speed of about 350km/h (220mph) by 2033. Further, the network will be extended to Sacramento and San Diego, covering a total distance of 1,287km with up to 24 stations. The first 273.6km-long segment in the Central Valley is expected to become operational by 2028. It broke ground for the California high-speed rail project in Fresno in January 2015. The California High Speed Rail Authority is the governing body overlooking the project. In April 2009, the US Federal Government, through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (2009), committed $8bn as an initial investment and $1bn a year for five years to develop high-speed rail projects across ten major corridors. The country has one of the highest rates of private car ownership and some of the busiest roads in the world and it came to realise, perhaps late, that alternative forms of transport would be needed to cope with the continued demand for fast and efficient long-distance and short-distance journeys. The US has looked enviously at the development of high-speed rail routes elsewhere in the world, particularly Japan.

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