Can Imperial Valley afford to pay it's share? Or just a plain RCTC Phase 1 for the Long run?

So if there was an IC LA-Phoenix Service, this would have to get funded by RCTC too on their part or the States of California and Arizona?

Thanks

BOB2 Wrote:
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> Does Caltrans have the $500 million to add another
> track over Beaumont, yet?
>
> Just because this is a "placeholder" in the
> Caltrans, Division of Fail, State Rail Plan, it
> doesn't mean it will really be any kind of
> Caltrans project.
>
> The Riverside County Transportation Commission
> (RCTC) will probably have to find the funding for
> this, and since RCTC has joined the LOSSAN JPA,
> and both commute and IC needs have been identified
> in that corridor, LOSSAN and ML would "fund" and
> "operate" proposed services.
>
> LOSSAN IC service, with direct through train
> connections to San Diego, is also being explored
> to North LA County on another proposed LOSSAN
> "branch", and direct Santa Barbara to Indio (all
> via LAUPT, which will be a run-through station, by
> 2056, if we don't repeal the funding source).
>
> Think of this as just one more of these awful
> "incremental" projects and services, that actually
> would meet our real travel needs, in congested
> travel corridors, that we could easily be
> building, with just the cost overruns on the
> CHSRA"S "runaway money train".