California State Rail Plan 2007-08 to 2017-18

2007-08 – 2017-18 California State Rail Planbetween Los Angeles and San Diego. These trains functioned primarily asconnections to long-haul trains, as opposed to a local transportation network forpassengers traveling within the corridor. Amtrak maintained the three round tripsoperated by Santa Fe (but reduced one to tri-weekly for the first year), and serviceremained at this level until State involvement began in 1976.The segment north of Los Angeles to Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo, onSouthern Pacific Transportation Company (SP) tracks, was served by Amtrak bythe Coast Starlight, a daily round-trip between Los Angeles and Seattle,(it operated only three times per week north of Oakland until June 1973).State support of the route began in 1976. This corridor has been unique amongState-supported routes in California because some individual trains were entirelysupported by Amtrak, since they were part of their basic system. However, theState paid most of the costs of the other trains, which were consideredState-supported service. In October 1995, the cost allocation system changed andthe State began support of 64 percent of all service, instead of supportingindividual trains. This support level increased to 70 percent in November 2004.In 1988, the San Diegan Route was extended to Santa Barbara with a furtherextension to San Luis Obispo in 1995. In 2000, the route was renamed thePacific Surfliner in recognition of its expanded service area. A second round-tripbetween Los Angeles and San Luis Obispo was added on November 17, 2004.Service on the Pacific Surfliners between Los Angeles and San Diego increasedfrom the original three round-trips to the current level of eleven round-trips onMonday through Thursday and twelve round-trips on Friday through Sundayas follows:9/1/76 Los Angeles-San Diego: fourth round-trip added, State-supported.4/24/77 Los Angeles-San Diego: fifth round-trip added, State-supported.2/14/78 Los Angeles-San Diego: sixth round-trip added, State-supported.10/26/80 Los Angeles-San Diego: seventh round-trip added, Amtrak basicsystem.10/25/81 State-supported Spirit of California Los Angeles-Sacramento roundtripovernight train provided Los Angeles to Santa Barbara service.Service discontinued October 1, 1983.10/25/87 Los Angeles-San Diego: eighth round-trip added, State-supported.6/26/88 First train extended to Santa Barbara, State-supported.10/28/90 Second train extended to Santa Barbara, State-supported.10/25/92 Los Angeles-San Diego: ninth round-trip added, Amtrak basicsystem.98