Two hundred thirty million dollars ($230,000,000) shall be allocated to the department for all of the following:
(a) Improvements to the Los Angeles-Fresno-San Francisco Bay Area passenger rail corridor and extension of the corridor to Sacramento, one hundred forty million dollars ($140,000,000), including at least sixty million dollars ($60,000,000) for rail rehabilitation and other rail improvements to provide intercity rail service between Fresno and Oakland via Madera, Merced, Turlock, and Modesto, and not more than thirty million dollars ($30,000,000) for rehabilitation and other rail improvements to provide intercity rail service between Stockton and Sacramento via Lodi and Galt.
(b) Preliminary engineering and feasibility studies of a high speed passenger rail link between Bakersfield and Los Angeles, five million dollars ($5,000,000).
(c) Implementation of intercity rail service from Placer County to Santa Clara County, eighty five million dollars ($85,000,000), of which not more than thirty five million dollars ($35,000,000) shall be for commuter rail service between Auburn and Davis, including funding for right-of-way acquisition. Service to Woodland may also be provided, if deemed practicable by the department.
(Added June 5, 1990, by initiative Proposition 116.)
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