CALIFORNIA (KRON) — The first leg of a high-speed rail in California will stretch between San Jose and the Central Valley.

According to the draft by the California High-Speed Rail Authority that was released on Thursday, launching is not excepted for nearly another 10 years.

Construction on the rail between the two regions is expected to be finished by 2024, but wont’t start running until the following year, 2025.

According to authority officials, once trains start running between the two regions, it will reduce an average three-hour drive to an hour trip on the system; say, from between Fresno and the Bay Area.

The route would start north of Bakersfield to the Caltrain Diridon station in downtown San Jose. The route links commuters to other transit systems including Amtrak trains and the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority light-rail vehicles.

The authority plans to clear the project through San Francisco along the tracks serving Caltrain and the Los Angeles/Anaheim area by next year.

The Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board, which operates Caltrain, has agreed to fully electrify the tracks to serve the high-speed rail system.

Once completed,the system is expected to take passengers between Los Angeles basin and San Francisco in less than three hours.

A second phase of the project would extend systems to San Diego and Sacramento, authority officials said.

Initially, the first tracks were supposed to link Merced and the San Fernando Valley, that were projected to become available in 2022, authority officials said.

Now, the available funds can bring the Silicon Valley to Central Valley connection operational earlier, and in addition, would provide economic benefits to both sides.

The overall capital costs were reduced from $67.6 billion to $64.2 billion for the first phase, which will also focus on efforts to connect Burbank, Los Angeles, and Anaheim.

Voters approved $9.95 billion in bonds for the project in 2008 and another nearly $3.5 billion has been secured through federal grants, which includes money from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

The plan can be viewed online and the public can comment on the draft through April 18, 2015 at http://www.hsr.ca.gov/docs/newsroom/2016_HSRA_Releases_Draft_2016_Business_Plan_021816.pdf.