March 26, 2012 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Los Angeles Times, March 26, 2012) LOS ANGELES — A series of concessions over the last year to quiet opposition to the California bullet train has created a potentially lethal problem: the revised blueprint for the system may violate requirements locked into...
March 23, 2012 | Amtrak, Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Kalamazoo Gazette, March 23, 2012) GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Tom Carper, the head of Amtrak’s Board of Directors, touted strides toward high-speed passenger rail in Michigan and work to enhance Michigan-to-Chicago rail services during a Thursday speech to transit...
March 22, 2012 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: San Jose Mercury News, March 21, 2012) SAN JOSE, Calif. — Hoping to bring the bonanza of California high-speed rail funds to the Bay Area much quicker, local and state leaders on Wednesday unveiled a strategy to split the $1.5 billion cost to electrify the...
March 20, 2012 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: KABC-TV Los Angeles, March 19, 2012) SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Critics of California’s high-speed rail proposal are trying to get an initiative on the November ballot, but Democrats call it a political ploy. A Republican state senator is collecting...
March 19, 2012 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: AFP, March 19, 2012) BEIJING — Chinese auditors said Monday 491 million yuan ($78 million) of funds set aside to compensate residents when their homes were demolished to make way for a high-speed railway have been embezzled. Source:...
March 19, 2012 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Sacramento Bee, March 18, 2012) SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Proponents of California’s $98.5 billion high-speed rail project, freshly battered by critics and teetering before the Legislature, are preparing a series of eleventh-hour changes to reduce the...
March 16, 2012 | Amtrak, Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Chicago Tribune, March 15, 2012) CHICAGO — A slow order imposed by Norfolk Southern is adding as much as 90 minutes to the total scheduled trip time of 5-1/2 hours for Amtrak trains traveling between Chicago and Detroit. NS cited safety concerns for imposing...
March 15, 2012 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: San Francisco Chronicle, March 15, 2012) SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — When the California High-Speed Rail Authority finishes tweaking its business plan in a few weeks, expect the cost to drop, the construction time to be shortened and improvements along the...
March 15, 2012 | Headlines, High Speed Rail, Legislation
(Source: Erie Times-News, March 15, 2012) ERIE, Pa. — A new definition of “high speed” could help GE Transportation compete for high-speed rail contracts. The Senate passed a transportation bill on Wednesday that included an amendment, which lowered the...
March 14, 2012 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: San Jose Mercury News, March 13, 2012) SAN JOSE, Calif. — Promising “improvements” to the state’s controversial bullet train plan, the new head of the project told a Senate hearing in Silicon Valley on Tuesday he now believes building...
