It was supposed to be the “Grand Central Station of the West.” And in 2010, every big-name Democrat in northern California was at the groundbreaking of the Transbay Transit Center in downtown San ...

An ambitious plan to bring bullet trains to the Pacific Northwest has drawn champions including former Washington Gov. Christine Gregoire and Microsoft President Brad Smith. They argue high-speed rail ...

WASHINGTON - The Trump administration says it's slamming on the brakes when it comes to California's high-speed rail project, but Gov. Gavin Newsom is saying not so fast. U.S. Transportation Secretary ...

Nothing epitomizes the abject failure of California governance more than the so-called High Speed Rail Project or, as it has been derisively labeled, “High Speed Fail.” To recap, in 2008 voters ...

With the clawing back of $4 billion in federal grants to support it, the Trump Administration seems hell bent on ensuring that California’s high-speed rail project ends up as precisely the “train to ...

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Connecting to Gilroy and Palmdale yields highest revenue and cost recovery ratios. Merced-Bakersfield segment will fail to cover its operating costs. State law changes could enable rail expansion to ...

Merced-to-Bakersfield rail may open by Jan. 1, 2032, nearly two years before deadline Segment unlikely to turn profit, but expansion to L.A. and Bay Area can Key funding hinges on Cap-and-Trade ...

The leader of the largest high-speed rail project in the U.S. has said the project will continue despite the Trump administration's withdrawal of funding. Ian Choudri, the CEO of the California ...

True high-speed rail has not yet made it to the U.S., but that will change soon. Here are the projects currently being developed. By Alexander Nazaryan In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed a ...