California High-Speed Rail News

It's Earth Day 2014, but few in the climate activism movement feel much like celebrating.

California seems to be the place where bad ideas go to live-and reproduce. Behold Senate president Darrell Steinberg's brainstorm to spend California cap and trade revenues on income redistribution and the state's bullet train, among other boondoggles.

The CTA's Skokie Swift is turning 50 years old, and there's a party Saturday to mark the anniversary.

Less than a mile of train tracks runs through Atherton, but that hasn't stopped the small town from making an outsized effort to fight changes in rail service.

State Attorney General Doug Gansler wants Maryland's government to take the initiative on building high-speed rail from Baltimore to Washington.

After years of talking about the benefits of a "modernized" Caltrain system, Palo Alto officials on Monday shifted their attention to the thorny impacts of the project, which include downed trees, traffic impacts on Alma Street intersections and a new power station that officials say would bring a new eyesore to the Greenmeadow neighborhood.

Neel Kashkari, a Republican candidate for governor, will release an education plan Tuesday that would send more money to individual public schools instead of districts, give campuses flexibility like their charter counterparts and provide free college tuition to some students in exchange for a piece of their future earnings.

The California High-Speed Rail Authority proposes a high-speed train system for intercity travel in California between major metro areas.

Wayne State University, in partnership with the University of Michigan and Drexel University, has launched a two-and-a-half-year study of the imagination - or l'imaginaire - of high-speed rail in America.

As the deadline to submit comments on the Caltrain electrification Draft Environmental Impact Report approaches, Burlingame city officials are relieved to hear its prized eucalyptus grove is mostly out of harm's way but still has a range of concerns including traffic and noise impacts and wants explicit assurance high-speed rail measures aren't ... (more)

Seems like it's nothing but bad news for the rail authority since a judge ruled in November that the project was not in compliance with the proposition that the voters approved in 2008.

Express Rail Link Sdn Bhd , the operator of KLIA Ekspres and KLIA Transit train services, is keen to bid for the Kuala Lumpur-Singapore High-Speed Rail project, saying it is a good candidate with the capabilities and technical know-how.

That diary focused on laying out the three "tiers" of HSR in the announced plan.

Old-timers remember when downtown Fresno was once a thriving commercial hub, and the tall buildings that still define the cityscape made economic sense to build.

The California High Speed Rail Authority today released the final EIR for the Fresno-Bakersfield segment of the high speed rail project.

As the effects of global warming are felt every day as we weather this drought, California legislators continue to debate how to deal with the impending effects of climate change.

As the effects of global warming are felt every day as we weather this drought, California legislators continue to debate how to deal with the impending effects of climate change.

A state appeals court has denied a petition by the California High-Speed Rail Authority seeking to head off a trial over whether its bullet-train plans comply with state law.

Flashman wins 2nd Extraordinary Writ case: Court refuses Rail Authority request to stop Part 2 of the Tos case from proceeding Flashman wins 2nd Extraordinary Writ case: Court refuses Rail Authority request to stop Part 2 of the Tos case from proceeding The High-Speed Rail Authority failed to persuade Sacramento 3rd District Court of Appeal to stop ... (more)

Like the rest of the country, California voters hold a deeply negative view of the job performance of the U.S. Congress: Just 13 percent approve of the work of the nation's lawmakers in a new Field Poll , compared to 79 percent who disapprove.