Madera Station is a proposed

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to serve

Madera, California Madera (Spanish language, Spanish for "Wood") is a city and county seat of Madera County, California, Madera County, California. As of the 2020 United States census, the city's population was 66,224. Located in the San Joaquin Valley, Madera i ...

. It would be located near the intersection of Avenue 12 and Santa Fe Drive. The Madera Amtrak station opened in 2010 as a replacement for the hundred-year old Storey station. The 2016

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Business Plan proposed a relocated Madera station in order to provide strong transit connectivity, potential for transit oriented development, good access to State Route 99 and the City of Madera, and connections between that system and

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'' services. Funding for the station was provided as part of the Valley Rail project in 2018. Work on station relocation is ongoing , as the San Joaquin Joint Powers Authority has entered into negotiations with CAHSR, Madera County, and the city of Madera. , the new station is expected to open in 2024.

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Madera Station Relocation Project
— via San Joaquin Joint Powers Authority Proposed California High-Speed Rail stations Madera, California Railway stations in Madera County, California Railway stations scheduled to open in 2024 {{California-railstation-stub