Outgoing California Governor Jerry Brown visited the Sacramento Press Club Tuesday, using the event to reflect on his five decades of public service, his accomplishments in the Golden State’s government, and the future of political discourse in the United States.
Read moreThe California State Auditor rebuked the agency in charge of implementing the state’s high-speed rail project Thursday, finding lack of planning and poor oversight has led to cost overruns plaguing the Golden State’s efforts.
Read moreA high-speed rail line connecting Seattle and Portland with Vancouver, British Columbia, could be a possibility, as Washington state’s governor and British Columbia’s premier promised more funding Friday to study such a project.
Read moreCalifornia’s planned bullet train, one of the nation’s largest infrastructure projects, just got a lot more expensive and will take years longer to come to fruition.
Read moreOpponents of the nation’s only privately-funded passenger rail service sued federal transportation officials this week, seeking to derail an expansion of the project linking West Palm Beach to Orlando.
Read moreFulfilling a constitutional duty for the 16th and final time, California Gov. Jerry Brown on Thursday paraded the state’s wares in an annual address, defending big-ticket infrastructure projects and touting a remarkable economic comeback and commitment to fighting climate change.
Read moreThe cost of the first phase of California’s high-speed rail project through the state’s Central Valley has soared by 35 percent to $10.6 billion, officials disclosed Tuesday.
Read moreVisible signs of progress on California’s mammoth, $68 billion high-speed rail project line the freeway between Fresno and Madera in the state’s Central Valley. But nearly 10 years after voters approved the project, opposition – and questions about its viability – remain.
Read moreAfter a delay, the California High-Speed Rail Authority on Wednesday awarded a hotly contested contract to a German engineering firm to help with the preoperative and early-operation phase of the fledgling bullet train network.
Read moreThe California High-Speed Rail Authority punted one of the most important decisions during its monthly meeting Thursday, stoking concerns the entity is not moving quickly enough on the project.
Read moreLast month I sat on an Austrian high-speed train, whizzing past the Alps in plush first-class comfort that cost less than a one-way ticket crammed aboard a Southwest Airlines jet from Sacramento to Burbank would have, and I found myself thinking: If America really is the shining city on a hill, why don’t we have anything that even closely resembles high-speed rail?
Read moreIn a ruling with implications for the future of high-speed rail in California, the state’s highest court ruled that while federal laws governing transportation trump state environmental laws for the most part, there are still areas where those state laws can prevail.
Read moreTwo California agencies routinely handed out lucrative projects to vendors without going through the state’s competitive bidding process, the state auditor announced Tuesday.
Read moreThe Trump administration has done an about-face and decided to provide the $650 million in federal funds to the Caltrain electrification project in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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An impending decision by the California Supreme Court over whether the state or federal government has jurisdiction in railway decisions could have major implications for the Golden State’s high-speed rail project.
Read morePresident Donald Trump’s nascent administration has sent mixed signals when it comes to California’s polarizing project to build the United States’ first high-speed rail system.
Read moreSeveral Texas legislators have taken aim at the Texas High-Speed Rail project by proposing bills to restrict a startup company’s access to private land to be used in its bullet train route.
Read moreThe Central Valley section of California’s high-speed rail project could exceed cost projections by as much as $3.6 billion, according to a risk analysis performed by a federal agency.
Read moreSeeking to jump-start a $64 billion high-speed rail project that has been stymied by lawsuits and design flaws, California regulators on Tuesday approved the sale of $3.2 billion in voter-approved bonds – and were quickly sued by critics yet again.
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