March 25, 2019 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: CNBC, March 21, 2019) LOS ANGELES — Two House bills introduced this month by Republicans from California seek to redirect federal funds from the state’s high-speed rail project and use the money for other purposes. The Trump administration in February...
March 22, 2019 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Pioneer Press, March 21, 2019) ST. PAUL, Minn. — Advocates for high-speed rail to Chicago are now adopting a less ambitious goal. They now want to establish a second train daily between St. Paul and Chicago — traveling at roughly the same speed as the...
March 20, 2019 | Headlines, High Speed Rail, Railroad Security
(Source: Associated Press, March 18, 2019) BERLIN — German police say a drunken man with a fire extinguisher smashed his way into the driver’s cab of a high-speed train running from Frankfurt to Paris and demanded that the driver slow down. Full story: USA...
March 6, 2019 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: CNBC, March 4, 2019) NEW YORK — California’s high-speed rail agency on Monday asked the Trump administration to reconsider its plans to pull funding from the state’s bullet train project. It also warned that any “clawback” of federal funds already spent...
March 5, 2019 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Editorial in the San Francisco Chronicle, March 1, 2019) SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — The state’s nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office has a message for Gov. Gavin Newsom: Figure out what you’re doing with high-speed rail, and fast. Full story: San Francisco...
March 5, 2019 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Los Angeles Times, March 4, 2019) LOS ANGELES — The California rail authority delivered a sharp rebuttal Monday to the Trump administration, saying its threat to cancel and rescind $3.5 billion in grants for the state bullet train project is “rash and...
February 27, 2019 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Bloomberg, February 26, 2019) LOS ANGELES — Even California’s studiously deliberate bureaucrats are confused by what Governor Gavin Newsom intends to do with the state’s high-speed rail project. Full story: Bloomberg
February 26, 2019 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Bloomberg, February 26, 2019) WASHINGTON, D.C. — For more than a decade, California has been trying to develop a 520-mile network of trains speeding as fast as 220 mph, much as they do in parts of Europe and Asia. Investing in high-speed rail in the U.S. is...
February 22, 2019 | DOT, Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Eno Transportation Weekly, February 20, 2019) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Transportation said it will not pay the California High Speed Rail Authority (CHSRA) the final $929 million in federal appropriations that was legally committed...
February 21, 2019 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: USA Today editorial, February 20, 2019) WASHINGTON, D.C. — High-speed rail stands a better chance if highways aren’t so subsidized. It remains a viable, even necessary, option in certain parts of America. Full story: USA Today
