September 10, 2018 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Los Angeles Times, September 7, 2018) LOS ANGELES — Officials with the California High-Speed Rail Authority met with Burbank and Glendale residents this week to update them on the progress of the project’s Burbank-to-Los Angeles section. Full story: Los...
September 6, 2018 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Bakersfield New, September 5, 2018) BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — A pair of community meetings are coming up in the next week for the planned bullet train route from Bakersfield to Palmdale. The California High-Speed Rail Authority is hosting open houses Wednesday...
September 4, 2018 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Dallas News, September 1, 2018) DALLAS — The Texas Bullet Train still only exists on paper. Yes, it can be built. The technology exists. But the money isn’t there yet to build it. Texas Central Partners, which wants to build the train, doesn’t yet...
August 21, 2018 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Global Railway Review opinion column by Karen Philbrick, August 20, 2018. Philbrick is Executive Director the Mineta Transportation Institute at San Jose State University.) SAN JOSE, Calif. — High-speed rail will provide Americans with another transportation...
August 20, 2018 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Tampa Bay Times, August 16, 2018) TAMPA, Fla. — As one of his first acts in office in 2011, Gov. Rick Scott canceled a $2.4 billion federally funded and shovel-ready bullet train from Orlando to Tampa because it carried “an extremely high risk of...
August 8, 2018 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Progressive Railroading, August 7, 2018) The House Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines and Hazardous Materials on Thursday will hold a field hearing in Sacramento, California, to review the status of the state’s high-speed rail project. Full story:...
August 6, 2018 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Tampa Bay Times, August 4, 2018) TAMPA, Fla. — Brightline, the firm behind the passenger rail system between Miami and West Palm Beach, doesn’t yet know if it will win a state bid to build a high-speed rail link between Tampa and Orlando. But the company is...
August 6, 2018 | Headlines, High Speed Rail, UP
(Source: Los Angeles Times, August 6, 2018) LOS ANGELES — The most ambitious rail project of California’s future is increasingly dependent on the cooperation of the very railroad that shaped the state’s past — and there are signs their relationship is growing...
August 2, 2018 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Streetsblog California, August 1, 2018) LOS ANGELES — Earlier this week, both the New York Times and the L.A. Times published articles on California high-speed rail. The NYT tells the overall story in an informative and fairly balanced way. The L.A. Times...
July 31, 2018 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Los Angeles Times, July 29, 2018) LOS ANGELES — When California voters approved construction of a bullet train in 2008, they had a legal promise that passengers would be able to speed from Los Angeles to San Francisco in two hours and 40 minutes. Full story:...
