As California’s bullet train chugs toward its destination of realizing a connection between California’s largest metropolitan areas in the north and south, one impediment continues to loom – grade separations.
Read moreFar-right Interior Minister Matteo Salvini pulled his support for Italy’s governing coalition on Thursday and called for snap elections, prompting the country’s premier to demand that he “justify” his decision to provoke a political crisis.
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Plagued by a spate of setbacks and a federal government hostile to its mission, the California High-Speed Rail Authority was desperate for some good news.
Read moreCalifornia sued the Trump administration in federal court Tuesday to block cancellation of a nearly $1 billion in funding for the high-speed rail project.
Read moreThe Trump administration said Thursday it would pull nearly a billion dollars in federal funding for California’s much-maligned high-speed rail project, terminating an agreement that previously awarded the Golden State another $2.5 billion for the plan.
Read moreThe California Legislature heard Wednesday that the price tag for building the embattled high-speed rail project through the Central Valley went up again, this time by $1.8 billion.
Read moreThe California High-Speed Rail Authority indicated Tuesday it is likely to recommend approval of interim rail service connecting Central Valley cities before expanding the service to Los Angeles and San Francisco as funding becomes available.
Read moreA Republican member of California’s congressional delegation introduced a bill Wednesday that would require California to return the approximately $3.5 billion in federal funds already spent on the state’s embattled high-speed rail project.
Read moreAdding to the long list of obstacles blocking California’s bullet train designs, the Trump administration announced Tuesday it was nixing $929 million in federal funding for a project meant to connect the state’s largest cities by high-speed rail.
Read moreThe demise of California high-speed rail may have been greatly exaggerated in the immediate aftermath of Governor Newsom’s first major speech: He says now he favors a more focused, cost-controlled approach.
Read moreCalifornia Governor Gavin Newsom used his first State of the State address Tuesday to drop twin bombshells: He wants to dramatically downsize the $77 billion high-speed rail project and his predecessor’s dream of a gigantic pair of tunnels delivering water under the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.
Read moreOutgoing 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.
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