January 23, 2012 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Press Enterprise, January 23, 2012) RIVERSIDE, Calif. — Transportation planners once dreamed that super-fast trains would whisk Southern Californians at more than 300 mph across the Mojave Desert to Las Vegas. But the idea of a magnetic levitation train...
January 19, 2012 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: San Jose Mercury News, January 18, 2012) SAN JOSE, Calif. — During his State of the State address on January 18, California Gov. Jerry Brown defended California’s high-speed rail plan despite the pummeling it’s taken in recent months. Brown took...
January 18, 2012 | Amtrak, Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Rockford Register Star, January 17, 2012) ROCKFORD, Ill. — Gov. Pat Quinn brought $3 million to town today for planning a new rail station along South Main Street near downtown, a stop for Amtrak’s $60 million train route between Chicago and Dubuque, Iowa....
January 18, 2012 | CSX, Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: The Daily News, January 18, 2012) BERGEN, N.Y. — United States Sen. Charles Schumer had a simple message for CSX Railroad Tuesday. “Foot-dragging is unacceptable,” he said during a Tuesday afternoon visit to the village. Schumer was referring to millions of...
January 17, 2012 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Los Angeles Times, January 17, 2012) LOS ANGELES — As the price tag for California’s bullet train has soared to nearly $100 billion, a central argument for forging ahead with the controversial project is an even loftier figure: the $171 billion that...
January 17, 2012 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Associated Press, January 17, 2012) BERGEN, N.Y. — Sen. Charles Schumer plans to be in western New York to call on federal, state and private transportation entities to complete a plan for constructing a high-speed rail line linking Albany and Buffalo. Full...
January 16, 2012 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Fresno Bee, January 16, 2012) FRESNO, Calif. — According to the Fresno Bee, there are lessons that California can learn from Spain’s 20-year history with high-speed trains. Top among them is how hard it is to be self-sufficient, even when conditions...
January 13, 2012 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Contra Costa Times, January 12, 2012) LOS ANGELES — The California High Speed Rail Authority board announced today that a Los Angeles-to-San Francisco high-speed train would run north to Bakersfield through the Antelope Valley cities of Palmdale and...
January 13, 2012 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Los Angeles Times, January 12, 2012) LOS ANGELES — The political and management challenges facing California’s bullet train project grew more complicated Thursday, when the chief executive of the $98.5-billion effort suddenly announced his resignation,...
January 12, 2012 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Fresno Bee, January 11, 2012) FRESNO, Calif. — If construction of California’s high-speed rail project begins this year in the central San Joaquin Valley, employment advocates want to make sure it provides jobs for unemployed workers in the economically...
