August 3, 2015 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Post Bulletin, July 31, 2015) ROCHESTER, Minn. — The Minnesota Department of Transportation is considering granting a private company exclusive rights to lease air space on highways for an elevated high-speed rail line from Rochester to the Twin Cities. Full...
July 29, 2015 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Marketplace, January 29, 2015) WASHINGTON, D.C. — California has begun work on the largest infrastructure project underway in the country. Eventually, a high-speed train will connect San Francisco with Los Angeles at speeds of more than 200 miles an hour. The...
July 23, 2015 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Houston Chronicle, July 22, 2015) HOUSTON — A revolutionary project to connect Dallas and Houston by bullet train just took a major leap forward. Texas Central Partners, which aims to build the nation’s first bullet train between Texas’ two...
July 22, 2015 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Dallas Morning News, July 22, 2015) DALLAS — Developers of a planned bullet train between Dallas and Houston have raised $75 million in private funds from Texas investors and named a new CEO, company officials announced this morning. Full story: Dallas...
July 14, 2015 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Fresno Bee, July 13, 2015) FRESNO, Calif. — More than a dozen pieces of land in the Valley have been targeted by the state for possible eminent domain for the first stretches of California’s high-speed train project. Full story: Fresno...
July 1, 2015 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Associated Press, June 30, 2015) SACRAMENTO, Calif. — (Editor’s note: This story is part of a series that focuses on traffic congestion, mass transit and the consequences of failing to plan for worsening gridlock.) Travelers easily whiz from city to city on...
June 30, 2015 | Amtrak, Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Associated Press, June 29, 2015) WEST KINGSTON, R.I. — A $41 million project to build new platforms at Kingston train station and an additional section of track so Amtrak’s high-speed train can bypass regional rail service will create new jobs and attract...
June 29, 2015 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Fresno Bee, June 28, 2015) FRESNO, Calif. — One of the chief criticisms leveled at the California High-Speed Rail Authority over the past couple of years has been the lack of private-sector investment in its ambitious statewide bullet-train program. Those...
June 25, 2015 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Los Angeles Times, June 16, 2014) LOS ANGELES — Crews in Central California have started construction on the first visible piece of the state’s $68-billion bullet-train system from Los Angeles to San Francisco, officials said on June 15. A viaduct in...
June 11, 2015 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Los Angeles Times, June 10, 2015) LOS ANGELES — One of the financial lifelines of California’s bullet train project has been $3.2 billion in federal grants. But a provision included in a key transportation funding bill passed by the House of...
