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2025 Project Update Report

This is the California High-Speed Rail Authority’s (Authority) 2025 Project Update Report that was submitted to the Legislature on March 1, 2025. It fulfills the Authority’s requirement to update the California Legislature biennially on the development and implementation of intercity high-speed rail service. The Authority is undergoing a comprehensive effort to update its design criteria, scope, cost, procurement strategy, ridership, and schedule. These updates will be submitted to the Legislature later this year.

Within the 2025 Project Update the Authority has provided:

  • CEO Ian Choudri’s vision for California high-speed rail and objectives going forward
  • Accomplishments since the 2024 Business Plan
  • Updated funding and expenditure figures
  • Progress of the Merced to Bakersfield segment, which is under construction and advanced design

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For questions, please contact us at info@hsr.ca.gov

Headshot of Ian Choudri in a gray suit and white-button up shirt.

Ian Choudri, California High-Speed Rail Authority Chief Executive Officer

Message From the CEO

  • My focus is clear: Utilize my background to analyze every aspect of this project to deliver this system efficiently and effectively.
  • The Authority must engage with industry to accelerate delivery and refine our approach. Building off a successful Industry Forum event with more than 400 attendees, we will continue to seek global feedback for subject matter experts.
  • We must fundamentally shift how we deliver the system by maximizing efficiency, operating like a business, preventing costly delays, and structuring the Authority into a project delivery team.
  • Strategic actions to accelerate construction that we are looking into include refining procurement, executing master agreements with local government and third parties, and updating the Authority’s Design Criteria Manual to standardize our approach.
  • To achieve full system connectivity, we must secure stable, long-term funding. We will be actively engaging with the state and federal governments, as well as seeking opportunities for public-private partnerships.

CEO Letter

High-Speed Rail Network

The High-Speed Rail Network will provide customers with multiple travel options to any destination served by Brightline West, the High Desert Corridor Joint Powers Authority and the California High-Speed Rail Authority.

Map of the planned Southwest High-Speed Rail Network. The map shows routes from San Francisco to Gilroy, Gilroy to Merced, Merced to Sacramento, Merced to Bakersfield, Bakersfield to Palmdale, Palmdale to Los Angeles, Los Angeles to Anaheim, Los Angeles to Rancho Cucamonga, Rancho Cucamonga to San Diego, Rancho Cucamonga to Victor Valley, Palmdale to Victor Valley, and Victor Valley to Las Vegas.

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Contact

Board of Directors

Thomas Richards, Chair
Nancy Miller, Vice Chair
Ernest Camacho
Emily Cohen
Martha M. Escutia
James C. Ghielmetti
Henry Perea
Lynn Schenk
Anthony C. Williams
boardmembers@hsr.ca.gov

Chief Executive Officer

Ian Choudri
boardmembers@hsr.ca.gov

Ex Officio Board Members

Honorable Dr. Joaquin Arambula
Honorable Lena Gonzalez
boardmembers@hsr.ca.gov

California High-Speed Rail Authority

770 L Street, Suite 620
Sacramento, CA 95814
(916) 324-1541
info@hsr.ca.gov

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NOTICE

The California High-Speed Rail Authority prepares a biennial report to the California State Legislature on the status of the program. The requirements for submission of a biennial Project Update Report were updated in June 2015 (AB 95) and require that on or before March 1, 2015, and every two years thereafter, HSRA provide a project update report, approved by the Secretary of Transportation, to the budget committees and the appropriate policy committees of both houses of the Legislature, on the development and implementation of intercity high-speed train service pursuant to Public Utilities Code Section 185030. The report, at a minimum, shall include a program wide summary, as well as details by project section, with all information necessary to clearly describe the status of the project. Project Update Reports are published in odd-numbered years, and the next report will be issued in 2025.  

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