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===Statewide economic growth and job creation===
In 2009, the Authority projected that construction of the system will create 450,000 permanent jobs through the new commuters that will use the system,<ref name="2009_business_plan2">{{cite web|author = California High-Speed Rail Authority|title = December 2009 Business Plan Report to the Legislature|date = December 14, 2009|accessdate = June 24, 2011|url = http://cahighspeedrail.ca.gov/assets/0/152/198/18a28048-f143-4855-b9b4-a9471e50b8ef.pdf|pages = 109–10|format = PDF|postscript = <!-- Bot inserted parameter. Either remove it; or change its value to "." for the cite to end in a ".", as necessary. -->{{inconsistent citations}}|deadurl = yes|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20111108184047/http://www.cahighspeedrail.ca.gov/assets/0/152/198/18a28048-f143-4855-b9b4-a9471e50b8ef.pdf|archivedate = November 8, 2011|df = mdy-all}}</ref> and that the Los Angeles-San Francisco route will generate a net operating revenue of $2.23 billion by 2023,<ref name="2009_business_plan2" /> consistent with the experience of other high-speed intercity operations around the world.<ref>{{cite web |last = Druce|first = Paul|title = High speed rail operational surplus|url = http://reasonrail.blogspot.com/2011/06/high-speed-rail-operation-surplus.html|work = Reason & Rail|date = June 6, 2011|accessdate = November 26, 2011}}</ref> <ref>{{cite web |last = Murakami|first = Jin|last2 = Cervero|first2 = Robert| authorlink2=Robert Cervero|title = High-speed rail and economic development: business agglomerations and policy implications|journal = High-Speed Rail and Sustainability: Decision-making and the Political Economy of Investment|publisher = Routledge, B. Henriguez and E. Deakin, eds. | location = New York | year = 2017}}</ref>The [http://www.hsr.ca.gov/docs/about/business_plans/BPlan_2012EIR.pdf 2012 Economic Impact Analysis Report] by Parson Brinkerhoff (project managers for the Authority) also indicated substantial economic benefits from high-speed rail.
Even Amtrak's high-speed [[Acela Express]] service generates an operating surplus that is used to cover operating expenses of other lines, Amtrak says.<ref>{{cite web |last = Yarow|first = Jay|title = Amtrak Loses $32 Per Passenger|url = http://www.businessinsider.com/report-amtrak-loss-comes-to-32-per-passenger-2009-10|publisher = Business Insider}}</ref> Amtrak calculates this in a way which is not equivalent to the way that it determines the costs of other train services, and most of the Acela's costs for using track and fuel are paid for by Silver Service long distance trains, according to TRAINS Magazine's Fred Frailey.{{citation needed|date=July 2016}}
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