March 13, 2012 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Reuters, March 12, 2012) NEW YORK — On March 9, a 984-foot section of an unopened high-speed railway collapsed in central China’s Hubei province following heavy rains, renewing safety concerns prompted by a fatal crash last year. The stretch, which had...
March 8, 2012 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Los Angeles Times, March 8, 2012) LOS ANGELES — The bullet trains that would someday streak through California at 220 mph are, in the vision of their most ardent supporters, more than just a transportation system. They are also a means to alter the...
March 7, 2012 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: State Journal-Register, March 7, 2012) SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The first 110-mph passenger trains in Illinois should begin test runs this summer on a 20-mile section of the Chicago-St. Louis line, the State Journal-Register reported. Full story: State...
March 7, 2012 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: The California Report, March 7, 2012) SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California’s High-Speed Rail Authority has a new chairman. Dan Richard is now the public point person for the agency, and he’s bracing to take a lot of the political heat over questions...
March 7, 2012 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Los Angeles Times, March 7, 2012) LOS ANGELES — California’s distressed state budget will have to allot more than $700 million each year to repay billions of dollars that officials plan to borrow to build the first phase of a proposed bullet train, a...
March 6, 2012 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: The Fresno Bee, March 2, 2012) SACRAMENTO — Contractors vying to build the first sections of California’s proposed high-speed rail line will get the green light to start making their bids within just a few weeks. Full story: The Fresno...
March 1, 2012 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Houston Chronicle, February 29, 2012) HOUSTON — Texas Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee pledged Wednesday to make her state’s decades-old dream to build a high-speed rail system come true, despite fiscal constraints and partisan gridlock in the nation’s capital. Full...
March 1, 2012 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: San Jose Mercury News, March 1, 2012) SAN JOSE, Calif. — With a long-standing federal deadline breathing down its neck, California’s polarizing $100 billion bullet train suddenly got a much-needed reprieve Wednesday when the Obama administration eased...
March 1, 2012 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: McClatchy News Service, March 1, 2012) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congress and the Obama administration are headed for another head-on collision over high-speed rail. Full story: Joplin Globe
February 28, 2012 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: WJBC website, February 27, 2012) CHICAGO — Illinois’ transportation chief said Monday that high-speed rail will be popular with passengers. Full story: www.wjbc.com
