Studying a Burbank airport tunnel may be academic, since the state doesn’t have the money to build the Southern California section of the bullet train, part of a roughly $50-billion to $60-billion shortfall in the project’s funding. The consideration of a tunnel under the Burbank airport could help the rail authority comply with speed and trip time requirements set in state law. Frank Miller, executive director of the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority, said the agency has had recent discussions with the state about the tunnel. Miller said the rail authority is discussing going under Runway 826, the east-west runway at the airport. “The California High-Speed Rail Authority is analyzing how to continue to achieve this mutual goal here in Southern California in coordination with BNSF,” she said.

Source: Los Angeles Times December 03, 2019 12:56 UTC