Salt Lake City may become a hub for rail routes to Los Angeles, Seattle

The Federal Railroad Administration will discuss next steps this spring for routes it plans to study.

The FRA will identify next steps and “recommended actions” from the study at some point this spring. But it would be “several years” before any selected routes come online, said Jordan Backman, planning manager for the Utah Department of Transportation. The Seattle to Denver route is projected to take about 40 hours per trip — about 16 hours shorter than the current train ride, which requires passengers to travel down the west coast from Seattle to Sacramento on one train, then change trains to travel from Sacramento to Denver, according to an FRA presentation.

The program would have allotted $500,000 to study how best to connect Salt Lake City to Las Vegas by passenger rail. The Idaho Transportation Department separately applied to study a proposed rail line connecting Boise to Salt Lake City, which UDOT supported, with Utah’s capital city acting as a bridge between the potential projects.

Across the country, about 90 such grant applications were submitted. Federal officials ultimately chose 69 projects to receive grant funding, according to a news release from the Federal Railroad Administration.

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