January 22, 2019 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Freight Waves, January 21, 2019) CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — Commuters in the Pacific Northwest love to complain about how slow (and archaic) it is to travel between Portland and Seattle by train. It takes about three and a half hours to traverse the 170-mile...
January 15, 2019 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Illinois News Network, January 14, 2019) SPRINGFIELD — Amtrak riders are still waiting for higher train speeds along the Chicago-to-St. Louis route. Full story: www.thetelegraph.com
January 7, 2019 | Headlines, High Speed Rail, Positive Train Control
(Source: Associated Press, January 5, 2019) ST. LOUIS, Mo. — Railway commuters traveling between St. Louis and Chicago have yet to see faster rail journeys, despite most of the Amtrak corridor’s $1.95 billon upgrade concluding a year ago. Full story:...
January 3, 2019 | Amtrak, Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, December 31, 2018) ST. LOUIS, Mo. — While most of a $1.95-billion upgrade of the St. Louis-to-Chicago Amtrak corridor was finished a year ago, long-promised faster rail journeys on the route have yet to happen. Delays in installing...
December 19, 2018 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Editorial at Streetsblog San Francisco, December 18, 2018) SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — It’s the most expensive public works project in the history of California. Years behind schedule, it cost more than 25 times what was originally promised. Full story:...
December 18, 2018 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Reuters, December 17, 2018) BRUSSELS/FRANKFURT — Siemens and Alstom have offered to sell either one of their high-speed train technology to address EU antitrust concerns about their plan to create a Franco-German rail champion, people familiar with the matter...
December 14, 2018 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Texas Tribune opinion column by Tom Giovanetti, December 14, 2018) AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Central Rail project is backed by private venture capital, and whether it is successful should be determined by markets, not by the Texas Legislature or the Reason...
December 12, 2018 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Fortune, December 11, 2018) NEW YORK — Ever since the advent of high-speed trains in Japan in 1964, countries have taken pride in touting their even-higher-speed trains. The record-holder for conventional rail was often France but now China runs the fastest...
December 6, 2018 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: The Leader News, December 5, 2018) HOUSTON, Texas — With the high-speed rail between Dallas and Houston serving as the first non-government project of its type in the U.S., Texas Central said the company is constantly searching for best-in-class partners. It...
December 4, 2018 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Streetsblog California, December 3, 2018) SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Carl DeMaio just won’t go away quietly. After the trouncing of his Proposition 6, which would have repealed the recent increase in gas taxes and caused other mayhem with California’s...
