California High-Speed Rail News

There are roughly $2 billion in passenger rail construction and improvement projects coming in the next year, including at least $300 million of spending earmarked for small businesses, for the Bay Area and Central Valley.

Since 1971, Amtrak has carried most of California's passenger rail traffic on both standard long distance routes and short distance urban light rail routes.

Normally, it's uncomfortable at best to hear a federal judge - let alone a panel of three - thunder criticism from the bench.

High-speed railway lines connecting Thailand, Laos and China might soon become a reality after the Thai cabinet met with its Lao counterparts in Chiang Mai earlier this week.

World's most dramatic city as you've never seen it before: Stunning timelapse video of Dubai shows hustle and bustle of life around skyscrapers and mosques It is the playground of the rich where ostentatious wealth is flaunted, the skyscrapers reach the skies and the sun never seems to stop shining.

It's a sultry day in Naperville, and the heat bounces off the station platform concrete.

The California High-Speed Rail Authority is launching a new website www.hsr.ca.gov on May 18, 2013.

The Colorado Public Interest Research Group is pushing for a high-speed train running between Denver and Colorado Springs, The Gazette reports .

The Associated Press reports State officials have agreed to drop a request to consolidate all lawsuits challenging California's sale of voter-approved high-speed rail bonds.

Today, in an unexpected victory for the Prop 1A lawsuit , the California High-Speed Rail Authority withdrew its request for a consolidation of the Validation suit with the Prop1A lawsuit which has been in the court system since 2011.

State officials on Thursday agreed to drop a request to consolidate all lawsuits challenging California's use of voter-approved high-speed rail bonds, allowing a trial seeking to stop their sale to begin later this month.

Plans for a A 33bn high-speed rail network to link Yorkshire and London are in deep trouble, after a spending watchdog rejected the Government's business case.

Executives of major discount carriers Thai AirAsia and Nok Air say their operating costs are definitely lower than those of high-speed trains, which, according to the Office of Transport and Traffic Policy and Planning, are estimated to be 2.50 baht per kilometre.

A PROPOSED tunnel underneath East Midlands Airport to bring high-speed rail to Notts could be extended by an extra kilometre.

Kings County opponents of high-speed rail are battling the project's leadership to avoid merging the county's lawsuit into a case on the issuance of bonds to build tracks through the San Joaquin Valley.

Turin, May 14 - Interior Minister Angelino Alfano and Infrastructure Minister Maurizio Lupi will attend a snap meeting Tuesday to discuss security and law enforcement after the latest attack on the contested high-speed TAV rail line across the French-Italian border.

AN anti-HS2 group has invited Cheshire East Council's leader to a public meeting to discuss the plans for the high speed train line that is planned to cut through the Tatton constituency.

Peter Kammerer is wowed by China's high-speed trains but says tickets must be affordable for all here to justify the cost of the Hong Kong link Peter Kammerer is a long-time columnist and commentator for the SCMP.

In the last month, two railroads, Union Pacific Railroad and Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad Company spoke out with less than flattering comments about the building of the rail project.

The Southland Regional Association of Realtors recently held a meeting where Santa Clarita-area agents were told they must inform prospective buyers about the California high-speed rail project if the house they're selling is along the planned route--though it could be decades before the train is operating in the area-- the Santa Clarita Valley ... (more)