California’s troubled high-speed rail project has received a new financial lifeline.

Gov. Gavin Newsom reached a deal with state lawmakers for $1 billion in funding each year through 2045, which is enough to finish the Central Valley segment between Bakersfield and Merced by 2033.

However, the funding is not enough to complete the full project designed to connect the San Francisco and Los Angeles regions.

Many California leaders have high hopes for the high-speed rail project, but the costs and criticism continue to skyrocket.

A connection from San Francisco to Los Angeles first proposed in 2008 for around $33 billion is now estimated at about $130 billion.

The rising costs and other factors led the Trump administration to recently terminate $4 billion in federal funding for the high-

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