Below ground at the Salesforce Transit Center in downtown San Francisco is a train portal without tunnel connections. On Monday, city, state and national leaders announced $3.4 billion in federal funding that will help connect the portal to Caltrain and, eventually, the California High-Speed Rail system.

The funds are promised to the Transbay Joint Powers Authority, or TJPA, the agency that owns and operates the Salesforce Transit Center. If the grant is matched, it will be used to build an extension of the Caltrain system to the portal from its current location at Fourth and King Streets.

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Ruth Dusseault is an investigative reporter and multimedia journalist focused on environment and energy. Her position is supported by the California local news fellowship, a statewide initiative spearheaded by UC Berkeley aimed at supporting local news platforms. While a student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism (c’23), Ruth developed stories about the social and environmental circumstances of contaminated watersheds around the Great Lakes, Mississippi River and Florida’s Lake Okeechobee. Her thesis explored rights of nature laws in small rural communities. She is a former assistant professor and artist in residence at Georgia Tech’s School of Architecture, and uses photography, film and digital storytelling to report on the engineered systems that undergird modern life.