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Subcommittee hears passenger-rail momentum — Corridor ID, Brightline West — but witnesses warn administration pauses risk project gains
Summary
Members and witnesses praised IIJA passenger-rail funding and Corridor ID planning while warning that recent administrative pauses and reviews of previously awarded grants threaten project momentum, particularly on large programs such as Gateway and state partnership awards.
Lawmakers and state transportation officials told the House Subcommittee on Rail that the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law's guaranteed rail funding has enabled planning and construction for passenger rail — but that recent administrative reviews and temporary holds on awards risk undoing progress.
"Thanks to a $3,000,000,000 grant from the federal state partnership for inner city passenger rail, BrightLine West has broken ground on a new high speed train between Las Vegas and Los Angeles,"…
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