February 26, 2015 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: News 10, February 25, 2015) SACRAMENTO, Calif. — There’s a $1 billion contract up in the air for California’s high-speed rail project — and Siemens is looking to win it. The German engineering company is exhibiting one of its high-speed...
February 19, 2015 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Los Angeles Times, February 15, 2015) LOS ANGELES — Most of the debate over the building of the nation’s first bullet train, in California, has focused on the economics of such a monumental undertaking and its projected $68-billion first-phase price...
February 19, 2015 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Bloomberg, February 19, 2015) NEW YORK — California has set off a global race to supply train cars for the state’s nascent high-speed rail line, a $1 billion contract proponents say could fuel a U.S. manufacturing boom worth far more than that. Full story:...
February 18, 2015 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Texas Tribune, February 17, 2015) AUSTIN, Texas — A private company’s plan to build a high-speed rail line connecting Dallas and Houston came further into focus Tuesday as the company announced its preferred route for the multibillion-dollar project. Full...
February 12, 2015 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Fresno Bee, February 11, 2015) FRESNO, Calif. — A new economic report prepared by a former Kings County supervisor outlines lingering uncertainty among Valley city and county leaders over how California’s high-speed rail project could benefit their...
February 11, 2015 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Forbes, February 10, 2015) NEW YORK — The Mexican government postponed again, this time indefinitely, a controversial $3.7 billion dollar high-speed train project. Finance Minister Luis Videgaray made the announcement at the end of January claiming lack of...
February 10, 2015 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Reuters, February 9, 2015) LOS ANGELES — California’s high-speed rail project faces another challenge after a group of counties and activists filed a lawsuit on Monday to overturn a decision they said fails to apply state environmental law to a segment...
February 6, 2015 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Dallas Morning News, February 6, 2015) DALLAS — The company developing a Dallas-Houston bullet train identified the two potential spots where they want to build a North Texas terminus Friday and announced a partnership with Mathews Southwest to turn the...
February 3, 2015 | Amtrak, Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: USA Today, February 2, 2015) WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Obama’s fiscal 2016 budget proposal would spend $5 billion on rail safety and development programs, including $550 million to update Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor from Boston to Washington....
February 2, 2015 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Bloomberg, February 2, 2015) NEW YORK — Chinese railroad shares slumped, led by China Railway Construction Corp., after Mexico again stalled a high-speed rail project that the company was expected to bid on. Full story: Bloomberg
