February 23, 2012 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: California High-Speed Rail Authority press release, February 2, 2012) SACRAMENTO – Today, at its regularly scheduled board meeting, the California High-Speed Rail Authority elected Dan Richard to be its chairman, succeeding Thomas Umberg who resigned that...
February 23, 2012 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: State Journal-Register, February 23, 2012) SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — State and local officials face a tough sell when it comes to attracting additional federal money for high-speed trains in Illinois and consolidation of rail traffic in Springfield, U.S. Sen. Dick...
February 21, 2012 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Los Angeles Times, February 19, 2012) LOS ANGELES — In a major shift in thinking about the state’s bullet train, powerful transportation agencies in Northern and Southern California want to quickly obtain up to half the project’s bond financing to...
February 21, 2012 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Associated Press, February 19, 2012) SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Critics have called it the train to nowhere and a $98 billion boondoggle. As concerns mount over the practicality and affordability of California’s plan to build a high-speed rail system, even...
February 17, 2012 | Amtrak, Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Kalamazoo Gazette, February 15, 2012) KALAMAZOO, Mich. — A special Amtrak train arrived in Kalamazoo on Wednesday morning, hitting speeds of 110 mph on its way from Chicago. The train was a celebration of the first expansion of high-speed rail outside the...
February 17, 2012 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: The Hill, February 15, 2012) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The $3.8 trillion budget unveiled this week by President Obama includes $47 billion for high-speed rail development, despite a Republican effort to defund the initiative this year. Full story: The...
February 16, 2012 | Amtrak, Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Chicago Sun-Times, February 15, 2012) KALAMAZOO, Mich. — There was definitely a Back to the Future feel aboard the special Amtrak train that departed Union Station at 7 a.m. Wednesday carrying news media and dignitaries on a mission to commemorate the return...
February 15, 2012 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Huffington Post, February 14, 2012) LOS ANGELES — Under a new plan currently being negotiated between the California High-Speed Rail Authority and a number of regional transit agencies, the proposed high-speed linkage between San Francisco and San Diego would...
February 14, 2012 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Los Angeles Times, February 13, 2012) LOS ANGELES — The Obama administration, which has been urging California to push through growing opposition to its high-speed rail project, asked Congress on Monday for nearly $35 billion in passenger rail funding over...
February 13, 2012 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: San Francisco Chronicle, February 13, 2012) SAN FRANCISCO — The overhaul of California’s high-speed rail project could bring the Bay Area $1 billion to electrify Caltrain and lay the path for bullet train service between San Francisco and San Jose...
