December 28, 2011 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Bloomberg News, December 28, 2011) WASHINGTON, D.C. — China punished 54 officials and ordered the railway ministry to improve management of its high- speed rail system after a government investigation found a fatal train crash was caused by mismanagement and...
December 28, 2011 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Bloomberg News, December 28, 2011) WASHINGTON, D.C. — China punished 54 officials and ordered the railway ministry to improve management of its high- speed rail system after a government investigation found a fatal train crash was caused by mismanagement and...
December 27, 2011 | Amtrak, Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Los Angeles Times, December 27, 2011) LOS ANGELES — Critics of the California High Speed Rail plan are now attacking the state’s fallback plan to use a 130-mile stretch of track for slower Amtrak service is a sham because there’s no guarantee the...
December 27, 2011 | Amtrak, Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Los Angeles Times, December 27, 2011) LOS ANGELES — Critics of the California High Speed Rail plan are now attacking the state’s fallback plan to use a 130-mile stretch of track for slower Amtrak service is a sham because there’s no guarantee the...
December 20, 2011 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Sacramento Bee opinion column, December 20, 2011) SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The parallels between the events leading to the 1880 Mussel Slough Tragedy and today’s wrangling over the bullet train are uncanny. They settled the former with guns, while the...
December 20, 2011 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Sacramento Bee opinion column, December 20, 2011) SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The parallels between the events leading to the 1880 Mussel Slough Tragedy and today’s wrangling over the bullet train are uncanny. They settled the former with guns, while the...
December 19, 2011 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Bloomberg news opinion column by John Rosenthal, December 18, 2011) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Abandoning high-speed rail — a cost-effective, energy-efficient, environmentally friendly, revenue-generating grand vision — would be a mistake we would regret for...
December 19, 2011 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Bloomberg news opinion column by John Rosenthal, December 18, 2011) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Abandoning high-speed rail — a cost-effective, energy-efficient, environmentally friendly, revenue-generating grand vision — would be a mistake we would regret for...
December 19, 2011 | FRA, Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Los Angeles Times, December 16, 20110 LOS ANGELES — The Obama administration vowed Thursday at a House committee meeting in Washington that it would not back down from its support of California’s bullet train project despite attacks from critics who...
December 19, 2011 | FRA, Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Los Angeles Times, December 16, 20110 LOS ANGELES — The Obama administration vowed Thursday at a House committee meeting in Washington that it would not back down from its support of California’s bullet train project despite attacks from critics who...
