Airport Panel to Pay Half of Rail Study
The Los Angeles Board of Airport Commissioners agreed Wednesday to pay half of the $450,000 cost of a feasibility study of a light-rail line from Los Angeles International Airport to Sylmar.
The six-month study is part of the city’s effort to secure a Palmdale leg of the proposed high-speed rail system linking Las Vegas to Southern California.
Airport commissioners previously authorized a study of the feasibility of a 32-mile rail line between Palmdale and Sylmar.
A bistate commission that has invited bids from private firms for the $4-billion system, which would operate at 250 m.p.h. or better, in October designated Anaheim as the prime California terminus.
But the commission specified that a spur from Victor Valley to Palmdale also be built if Los Angeles, which is anxious to boost patronage at little-used Palmdale Air Terminal, provides a rail link to Los Angeles.
The Los Angeles County Transportation Commission, which is building a countywide network of rail lines, is paying the other half of the cost of the LAX-to-Sylmar feasibility study.
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