January 16, 2014 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Los Angeles Times, January 15, 2014) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The California bullet train agency is continuing to meet its financial obligations under federal grants that are providing $3.2 billion to the project, but the state has not indicated how it will...
January 15, 2014 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Sacramento Bee, January 11, 2014) SACRAMENTO, Calif. — But no one should doubt that the biggest emissions problem to solve is transportation. That’s where the bulk of auction proceeds should go. It’s reasonable to include high-speed rail in the mix....
January 15, 2014 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: International Brotherhood of Teamsters press release, January 14, 2014) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Teamsters Union is praising the significant commitment to continued funding for high speed and local commuter rail systems in California that are part of the...
January 10, 2014 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Sacramento Bee, January 9, 2014) SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Calling his high-speed rail project consistent with California’s history as “a generator of dreams and great initiatives,” Gov. Jerry Brown on Thursday defended his decision to shore up the project’s...
January 10, 2014 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Los Angeles Times, January 9, 2014) SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A proposal to use money from the state’s cap-and-trade system of pollution credits to help fund the proposed high-speed rail system “is going to be one of the central issues in the budget,” Senate...
January 8, 2014 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Associated Press, January 7, 2014) RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia and North Carolina representatives are scheduled to meet on the development of high-speed rail service from Charlotte, N.C., to Washington, D.C. Full story: CBS Charlotte
January 8, 2014 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Dallas Morning News, January 8, 2014) DALLAS — During a speech in San Antonio Tuesday, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx hopped all aboard a most familiar subject: a high-speed rail line linking Dallas-Fort Worth to Houston, which, if...
January 7, 2014 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Sacramento Bee, January 6, 2014) SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Jerry Brown plans to propose spending millions of dollars in fees paid by carbon producers to aid the state’s controversial high-speed rail project. Full story: Sacramento...
January 7, 2014 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: New York Times, January 6, 2014) LOS ANGELES — Gov. Jerry Brown of California is riding into an election year on a wave of popularity and an upturn in the state’s fortunes. But a project that has become a personal crusade for him over the past two years...
December 23, 2013 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Sacramento Bee, December 20, 2013) SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Siemens Rail Systems has won a major contract to build 35 diesel-electric locomotives at its south Sacramento manufacturing plant for the Illinois Department of Transportation and several other...
