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Agency overseeing Amtrak Pacific Surfliner to get $1 million from state to study improvements
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The Los Angeles — San Diego — San Luis Obispo (LOSSAN) Rail Corridor Agency, which oversees Amtrak's Pacific Surfliner, is getting $1 million from the state to look at how to make the service more reliable between San Luis Obispo, Los Angeles and San Diego.
Why it matters: It will fund an update to a 2022 study reflecting changes in things like service schedules, infrastructure improvement plans and how passenger and freight trains share tracks. It will also look at how the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Los Angeles could affect rail operations and service needs. The money is part of a larger state grant of more than $66 million dollars to rail agencies across California.
The backstory: The Pacific Surfliner has dealt with several closures in recent years along a stretch of the line in San Clemente where the track along the coastline has eroded. Earlier this month, state coastal regulators approved construction of a seawall along a section of the line south of San Clemente State Beach.
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