January 16, 2015 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Television station KXTV, January 16, 2016) SACRAMENTO, Calif. — There’s more good news for one of Sacramento’s few heavy industrial employers. Siemens Rail Systems has just received a $210 million extension of it’s contract to build light...
January 15, 2015 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Fresno Bee, January 12, 2015) FRESNO, Calif. — Twenty-eight more pieces of property in Fresno and Madera counties are in line for condemnation by the state to make way for California’s high-speed train project following a vote Monday in Sacramento. Full...
January 14, 2015 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Fresno Bee, January 13, 2015) FRESNO, Calif. — The California High-Speed Rail Authority board awarded a $1.36 billion contract for the design and construction of its second segment of rail line in the central San Joaquin Valley, a 65-mile stretch from...
January 13, 2015 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Pioneer Press, January 13, 2015) ST. PAUL, Minn. — Ramsey County Commissioner Janice Rettman is the new chair of the Minnesota High-Speed Rail Commission, and the first order of business is a $1 million request for rail improvements in St. Paul. Full story:...
January 13, 2015 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: San Francisco Chronicle, January 12, 2015) SAN FRANCISCO — There may be some new big-bucks players when it comes to California’s high-speed rail line — Las Vegas casinos. It’s estimated that 18 million people a year hop on Interstate 15 from Southern...
January 9, 2015 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Next Big Future, January 9, 2015) Romanian website Glasul indicates a Moscow to Beijing Transsiberian high speed rail project has been awarded to China Railway High-speed (CRH), a subsidiary of the state-controlled China Railway (CR). It would reduce a...
January 9, 2015 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Los Angeles Times, January 8, 2015) LOS ANGELES — Opponents of high-speed rail are against something the rest of the world has already embraced, and found extremely valuable. Nations with high-speed rail include France, Japan and China — and their economies...
January 8, 2015 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Los Angeles Times, January 7, 2015) FRESNO, Calif. — On a vacant lot in a depressed industrial area of Fresno, Gov. Jerry Brown and other California leaders on Tuesday marked the beginning of construction of the nation’s first bullet train and one of...
January 8, 2015 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: San Francisco Chronicle, January 7, 2015) FRESNO, Calif. — Gov. Jerry Brown and state political leaders on Tuesday celebrated their perseverance over lawsuits and skeptical lawmakers and voters as they ceremonially started work in the Central Valley on the...
January 6, 2015 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Sacramento Bee, January 6, 2015) SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Amid ongoing court challenges, funding uncertainties and sharp divisions among the state’s politicians, the bullet train system will chug into the dirt-moving phase with a noontime ceremonial...
