October 30, 2015 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Television station ABC 30, October 29, 2015) FRESNO, Calif. — The columns that will support high speed rail tracks 50 feet above the Fresno River are going up and Jeff Morales, the CEO of the California High Speed Rail Authority, says more signs of progress...
October 26, 2015 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Sacramento Bee, October 25, 2015) SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California’s ambitious Los-Angeles-to-San-Francisco high-speed rail project will likely miss its 2022 deadline and go over its $68 billion budget, a newspaper analysis concluded. Full story:...
October 21, 2015 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Houston Chronicle, October 20, 2015) HOUSTON — Another week, another step forward for the still-controversial high-speed rail project in Texas. Planners on Tuesday announced their choice of firms to design and engineer the line. Full story: Houston...
October 20, 2015 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Los Angeles Magazine, October 19, 2015) LOS ANGELES — While the California high-speed rail is the most advanced bullet train project in the country, it still has major issues hanging over its path. For one thing, there’s a host of lawsuits (though the...
October 19, 2015 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Sacramento Bee, October 18, 2015) SACRAMENTO, Calif. — International rail giant Siemens wants to turn the capital city into the country’s bullet train manufacturing hub. After six years of prep work at its sprawling French Road plant in south Sacramento, the...
October 16, 2015 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Bloomberg, October 15, 2015) NEW YORK — China won the rights to build a $5.5 billion railway line in Indonesia as the Southeast Asian nation tries to upgrade its infrastructure to drive economic growth. Full story: Bloomberg
October 13, 2015 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Fresno Bee, October 12, 2015) FRESNO, Calif. — Five teams of builders competing for a contract to build a 22-mile high-speed rail segment in northern Kern County will have an extra month to prepare their bids. The California High-Speed Rail Authority last...
October 9, 2015 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Los Angeles Times, October 8, 2015) LOS ANGELES — Since its earliest days of planning, California’s $68-billion bullet train project has counted on a massive infusion of private capital to fill any gaps in state and federal funding. A new sounding of...
October 8, 2015 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Fresno Bee, October 6, 2015) FRESNO, Calif. — HNTB Corp., a Missouri-based engineering and consulting firm, was awarded a five-year contract worth up to $30 million to serve as the construction manager for a 22-mile stretch of high-speed rail construction in...
October 7, 2015 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Baltimore Sun, October 7, 2015) BALTIMORE, Md. — David Cordish, real estate mogul and successful developer of casinos, says this about a proposed high-speed train that could move passengers from Baltimore to Washington, D.C. in 15 minutes: “Game changer for...
