June 22, 2016 | Amtrak, Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: WHBF, June 21, 2016) MOLINE, Ill. — The state of Illinois has been battling budget issues for a while now. But on Tuesday, the Quad Cities got some good news about the direct passenger rail service from the Quad Cities to Chicago. Illinois Governor Bruce...
June 21, 2016 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Fort Worth Star-Telegram, June 20, 2016) FORT WORTH, Texas — High-speed rail is a touchy subject in much of Texas, where some politicians and landowners are concerned about train tracks cutting across private property. Full story: Fort Worth...
June 20, 2016 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Bloomington Pantagraph, June 18, 2016) NORMAL, Ill. — The Illinois Department of Transportation and Union Pacific Railroad are overseeing the work, which is necessary for trains capable of going 110 mph to travel through Bloomington-Normal starting next year....
June 20, 2016 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Fresno Bee, June 17, 2016) FRESNO, Calif. — Work began Thursday morning to install the first of 42 giant girders that will support the road bed of the new Tuolumne Street bridge in downtown Fresno. The bridge will carry traffic on Tuolumne Street over the...
June 15, 2016 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Associated Press, June 14, 2016) SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Another $63 million was added Tuesday to the cost of California’s high-speed rail project and the completion date for the first 29-mile leg was pushed back 17 months to August 2019, after the state...
June 14, 2016 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: MinnPost, June 13, 2016) ROCHESTER, Minn. — Forces are aligning in Minnesota to bring foreign and domestic funders together on the world’s first privately capitalized high-speed rail (HSR) corridor — a 77-mile, 200 mph train that will connect the MSP region...
June 14, 2016 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: YourHoustonNews, June 12, 2016) HOUSTON — Texas does big things. Texas Central Partners, LLC (Texas Central), a private company that is leading the bullet train project coming to Texas, is developing a new high-speed passenger rail system that will connect...
June 10, 2016 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Belleville News-Democrat, June 10, 2016) ALTON, Ill. — The Illinois Department of Transportation plans to carry out crossings upgrades this year as it prepares to provide high-speed rail passenger service between Chicago and St. Louis by 2017. Full story:...
June 9, 2016 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Los Angeles Times, June 8, 2016) LOS ANGELES — Nine months after announcing that China would help build a high-speed rail line from Los Angeles to Las Vegas, the private U.S. company behind the plan said late Wednesday that the deal was off Full story: Los...
June 2, 2016 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: National Public Radio, June 1, 2016) WASHINGTON, D.C. — High-Speed rail is moving slowly in California. Voters approved a bullet train linking San Francisco and Los Angeles back in 2008. Since then, there have been challenges – cost overruns, lawsuits,...
