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High-speed rail is generally understood in the U.S. as reaching speeds of 200 miles per hour, although the Brightline West is averaging about half that speed.
California high-speed rail aspirations threaten to become a slow-motion train wreck. The political window to fund the first segment from Merced to Bakersfield appears to have come and gone. Ahead ...
The California High-Speed Rail Authority plans to downsize its massive Central Valley stations, including the Merced station, in an attempt to narrow the project’s focus on only building ...
The California High-Speed Rail Authority plans to downsize its massive Central Valley stations, including the downtown Fresno station, in an attempt to narrow the project’s focus on only ...
Officials at the California High-Speed Rail Authority defended the project from a scathing federal audit they say is “an inaccurate, often outright misleading, presentation of the evidence ...
The California High-Speed Rail Authority plans to downsize its massive Central Valley stations, including the downtown Fresno station, in an attempt to narrow the project’s focus on only ...
HDR has been selected to design and engineer a 54-mile high-speed rail segment connecting Victorville and Palmdale, California. This segment will connect with the Brightline West high-speed rail ...
High-speed rail completes that picture. And to a certain extent, the long-gestating project informed plans to build out transit infrastructure in the Bay Area. BART’s past discussions of a ...
Trump wants to hand China the future and abandon the Central Valley,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said Wednesday. “We won’t let him.” ...
High-Speed Rail Authority CEO Ian Choudri said the authority will ask the Trump administration for money, but even if that comes through it needs new sources of funding.