Meeting_Body
PLANNING AND PROGRAMMING COMMITTEE
MAY 15, 2024
Subject
SUBJECT: HIGH DESERT CORRIDOR FY25 WORK PROGRAM
Action
ACTION: APPROVE RECOMMENDATIONS
Heading
RECOMMENDATIONS
Title
CONSIDER:
A. APPROVING $4,374,000 in Measure M High Desert Multipurpose Corridor (HDMC) funds identified in the Expenditure Plan for Right-Of-Way acquisition to be repurposed to the High Desert Corridor (HDC) Joint Powers Agency (JPA) for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 work program;
B. APPROVING $2,200,000 in Measure M High Desert Multipurpose Corridor (HDMC) funds identified in the Expenditure Plan for Right-Of-Way acquisition to be repurposed to complete the HDMC High Speed Rail (HSR) Service Development Plan (SDP); and
C. AUTHORIZING the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) to negotiate and execute all necessary funding agreements with the HDC JPA.
Issue
ISSUE
The HDC JPA has requested that Metro provide funding for the FY 25 HDC JPA work program, which includes mobilization costs leading toward a 30% design of the HDMC (Attachment A).
Background
BACKGROUND
The HDMC, a Measure M Expenditure Plan project, comprises an HSR component , which will implement a new 54-mile east-west rail alignment between the future Palmdale Multimodal HSR Station and the Brightline West Station in Victor Valley in San Bernardino County. The HDMC HSR Project (Project) will link the Metrolink Antelope Valley Line (AVL) with two future HSR lines - California HSR and Brightline West (Attachment B). Brightline West is a new privately funded HSR service that will connect Las Vegas with Victor Valley and Rancho Cucamonga.
The Project also supports the State's ambitious greenhouse gas reduction efforts and provides economic development and mobility benefits for a region that includes many historically underserved, low-income, and disadvantaged communities.
In 2016, the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) completed the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) review of the Proje...
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