January 27, 2014 | Amtrak, Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Railway Age, January 24, 2014) NEW YORK — Amtrak and the California High Speed Rail Authority (CHSRA) on Jan. 24, 2014 jointly issued an RFP (Request For Proposals) for high speed trainsets that will be “essential to meeting Amtrak’s critical short-term...
January 24, 2014 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: The Republican, January 23, 2014) SPRINGFIELD — Six to 12 passenger trains a day from Springfield to Boston at speeds of about 90 miles an hour could be in the future, transportation planners told a crowd of more than 100 people at a forum hosted...
January 24, 2014 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Fort Worth Star-Telegram, January 24, 2014) FORT WORTH, Texas — As high-speed rail advocates get more serious about connecting Houston, Dallas, Arlington and Fort Worth with bullet trains, the Interstate 30 corridor is emerging as the preferred pathway...
January 23, 2014 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: San Antonio Current, January 22, 2014) SAN ANTONIO, Texas — File this under “so crazy it just might work:” U.S. Representative Henry Cuellar, whose district starts in Bexar County and extends down to Laredo, held a high-profile meeting last week to...
January 23, 2014 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Los Angeles Times, January 22, 2014) LOS ANGELES — Under a little-noticed item in Gov. Jerry Brown’s proposed budget, the state would lend California’s bullet train agency $29 million to keep the project moving ahead amid increased...
January 22, 2014 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Munster Times, January 19, 2014) VALPARAISO, Ind. — Members of the Fort Wayne-based Northeast Indiana Passenger Rail Association pitched the proposal for making Valparaiso a stop along the 300-mile higher-speed train route from Chicago’s Union...
January 21, 2014 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Sacramento Bee opinion column by Bruce Malman, January 21, 2014) SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Train travel works. The Altamont Corridor Express trains have attracted thousands of Silicon Valley techies who, from Tracy to Stockton, have generated property taxes,...
January 20, 2014 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Associated Press, January 20, 2014) HARTFORD, Conn. — Higher-speed trains and intercity rail service in New England remain on track despite a congressional budget deal that cut off spending for high-speed rail — though future expansion plans could be in...
January 17, 2014 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: San Antonio Express News, January 17, 2014) SAN ANTONIO, Texas — A long-envisioned high-speed rail line between San Antonio and Monterrey, Mexico, could be a reality within 10 years, officials from Texas and the Mexican border state of Nuevo León said...
January 16, 2014 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: McClatchy News Service, January 15, 2014) WASHINGTON, D.C. — House lawmakers grilled state and federal officials, and some of their own colleagues, about California’s high-speed rail program in a three-hour hearing Wednesday looking at the future...
