American Airlines and Continental Airlines formally joined THSRTC in an effort to bring high-speed rail to Texas as a passenger collector system for the airlines. A separate entity, Lone Star High-Speed Rail LLC, was formed in 2009 to plan a railway between Dallas and Houston. The company changed its name to Texas Central Railway in 2013, and has been developing the system based on technology used on Japanese Shinkansen lines. The route traverses open farms and ranches with one intermediate stop in the Brazos Valley. Regulatory approvals cleared in September 2020; the service is expected to begin in 2026. The California High-Speed Rail Authority was created in 1996 by the state to implement an extensive rail system that is estimated to cost about $40 billion. Once built, the system will not require operating subsidies, and it is expected to generate $1 billion in annual profits. Construction has been approved with the passing of proposition 1A, in which a $9.95 billion general obligation bond was authorized by voters. The system would provide high-speed service between and among major cities, like Sacramento, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San Diego, and would allow travel between Los Angeles' Union Station and San Francisco's Transbay Terminal in two and a half hours. On 2 December 2010, the California High-Speed Rail Authority announced the first section of the Californian High-Speed Rail network had been selected and construction was to start in 2012, but delays postponed it to 2015. The line will run from near Madera south to Bakersfield, with stations at Fresno and Hanford, at a length of running through a rural part of the San Joaquin Valley. The line will connect with traditional Amtrak lines at each end. In December 2010, that funding was doubled after the newly elected governors of Ohio and Wisconsin decided to cancel right of way projects which had been allocated $1.2 billion of funding by the federal government. Of that amount, $616 million was then granted to California in addition to funding already promised, which, when combined with a state bond issue to match the new funding, provided over $1.2 billion in addition funding. This will be used to add an additional of track, bringing the line to the edge of Bakersfield. Brightline West, a project of Fortress Investment Group, is a line planned to be built between Los Angeles, California and Las Vegas, Nevada with trains running up to