TransportationFriday, November 13
The agency behind the Pacific Surfliner gets $1 million to study how to make trains more reliable
The Daily San Luis Obispo team
If you ride the Pacific Surfliner out of San Luis Obispo, this one is aimed at you. The Los Angeles-San Diego-San Luis Obispo Rail Corridor Agency, known as LOSSAN, received $1 million in state funding to update its 2022 Corridor Optimization Study. The California State Transportation Agency awarded the money. LAist says it's part of a larger state grant of more than $66 million to rail agencies across California.
$1 millionin state funding to update LOSSAN's 2022 corridor study
The update looks at how passenger and freight trains share tracks and how future rail improvements should be planned.
Source: NBC 7 San Diego
LAist says the update will reflect changes in service schedules, infrastructure improvement plans and how passenger and freight trains share tracks. It will also consider rail-service needs tied to the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic and Paralympic Games.
- Funding: $1 million from the California State Transportation Agency
- Study being updated: LOSSAN's 2022 Corridor Optimization Study
- Also considered: the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic and Paralympic Games
The money is a small piece of a bigger rail picture
- $66 million+
- in the larger state grant to California rail agencies
- 351 miles
- on the Pacific Surfliner route
- 29
- stations on that route
Sources: LAist, NBC 7 San Diego
Sources: NBC 7 San Diego, LAist