April 3, 2013 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Philadelphia Inquirer, April 2, 2013) PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — The Obama administration will weigh 15 alternatives for improved passenger rail service between Boston and Washington, ranging from modest upgrades to a new high-speed Northeast Corridor that would...
April 1, 2013 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Fort Worth Star-Telegram, March 31, 2013) DALLAS, Texas — Transportation officials are studying the feasibility of adding high-speed passenger rail service to alleviate road congestion along an 850-mile corridor from Oklahoma City into South Texas. Full...
April 1, 2013 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Huffington Post, March 30, 2013) WASHINGTON, D.C. — In the report released Friday, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), an independent and nonpartisan agency that works for Congress, found the California High-Speed Rail Authority’s ridership...
March 28, 2013 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Streetsblog Capitol Hill, March 27, 2013) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Not one to back away from a terrible argument, CNN’s Anderson Cooper is sticking with his series exposing the “boondoggle” of federal high-speed rail funding. In a segment aired Monday night, he and...
March 28, 2013 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: San Jose Mercury News, March 28, 2013) SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The state of California has filed a civil case against everyone — literally, the whole world — seeking to validate $8.6 billion in voter-approved bonds for its $69 billion high-speed rail...
March 28, 2013 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Los Angeles Times, March 26, 2013) LOS ANGELES — Some longtime backers of the project are objecting to political compromises that they say undermine legal safeguards for the massive investment, notably a design that would move passengers between urban...
March 25, 2013 | Headlines, High Speed Rail, War on Workers
(Source: The Political Environment, March 22, 2013) When Scott Walker forced the cancellation of a Madison-to-Milwaukee Amtrak line in 2011, he and legislators also broke a contract to build train equipment for several states at a developing Milwaukee factory in the...
March 22, 2013 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Sun Sentinel opinion column by Anthony Orlando, March 22, 2013) FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — In June 2009, ten Florida Congressmen sent a letter to the Department of Transportation, requesting over $2 billion from the federal government. They wanted to build a...
March 22, 2013 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Chicago Tribune, March 21, 2013) CHICAGO — Locomotives capable of exceeding the 110-mph speed limit on the passenger rail corridor between Chicago and St. Louis will be bought for Illinois and four other states under a process the Illinois Department of...
March 20, 2013 | Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Slate column by Jeremy Stahl, March 15, 2013) Last month, graphic designer and railroad aficionado Alfred Twu published a stunning map of what America would look like if virtually every last nook and cranny of the country were connected by a state-of-the-art,...
