Critics Blast Proposed High Speed Rail Segment
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Supporters and critics of California’s planned 800-mile high-speed rail line are at odds over a proposal to build the first segment of the system between two small towns in the...
View ArticleOfficials Agree To Extend First High Speed Rail Route
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Officials agreed on Monday to nearly double the length of the first segment of California’s planned high-speed rail line to allay concerns that the initial route will not reach major...
View ArticleHigh Speed Rail Authority Seeks Private Sector Ideas
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The California High-Speed Rail Authority says it’s ready to hear from the private sector. The authority issued on Wednesday a request for expressions of interest from companies that...
View ArticleCalifornia Senate Approves $68B High-Speed Rail
SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – It’s a vision into the future, a bullet train connecting Northern and Southern California. State lawmakers took a giant leap into this future Friday. “Risk can be measured in many...
View ArticleGAO: Calif. High-Speed Rail Estimates Reasonable
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The federal Government Accountability Office is giving generally good grades to the California High-Speed Rail Authority’s business plan to build a $68 billion bullet train....
View ArticleCalifornia High-Speed Rail Work Begins, Angering Residents Near Future Tracks
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) – Trucks loaded with tomatoes, milk and almonds clog the two main highways that bisect California’s farm heartland, carrying goods to millions along the Pacific Coast and beyond....
View ArticleAltered Route Recommended For High-Speed Rail Leg
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California high-speed rail officials are recommending a new route for the second leg of the bullet train south of Fresno. Rail authority officials said Thursday that the board...
View ArticleHigh-Speed Rail Authority Promises 3 Percent Of Jobs To Disabled Veterans
SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – California’s High-Speed Rail Authority wants to get disabled veterans back to work. The authority and California’s Department of Veteran Affairs signed a contract Thursday at...
View ArticleLand Acquisition For High-Speed Rail Moving Slowly
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — The body overseeing plans to build California’s bullet train has started the daunting and expensive process of acquiring thousands of acres in the Central Valley, where the rail...
View ArticleJudge Blocks Sale Of High-Speed Rail Bonds, Jeopardizing Future Of Project
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – A Sacramento judge on Monday tore up California’s funding plans for its bullet train project in separate orders that could force the state to spend months or years redrawing...
View ArticleHurdle For High-Speed Rail: Where Is The Money?
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) —A judge’s rulings this week ordered California’s high-speed rail authority to rewrite its funding plan, bringing to the surface again one of the biggest hurdles facing the...
View ArticleCalif. High-Speed Rail Officials Respond To Setbacks
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The board that oversees California’s embattled $68 billion high-speed rail project is meeting to discuss how to respond to a series of legal setbacks to the project. At a...
View ArticleFirst Eminent Domain California High-Speed Rail Claim OKed
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A state board has given approval for the California High-Speed Rail Authority to start the process of seizing its first property through eminent domain. The State Public Works...
View ArticleCalifornia High Court Declines Appeal Of Rail Case
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The California Supreme Court decided Wednesday not to consider an appeal of a case brought by opponents of the state’s $68 billion bullet train project, delivering a crucial...
View Article3 Firms Bid On Second Phase Of High-Speed Rail
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – Three firms are bidding to build the second leg of California’s $68 billion high-speed rail system, which will run from Fresno to Bakersfield. The California High-Speed Rail...
View ArticleFresno Groundbreaking Tuesday For High-Speed Train
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) – California Gov. Jerry Brown is slated to be among the dignitaries at an invitation-only groundbreaking next week for the state’s new high-speed rail system. The Fresno Bee says...
View ArticleHigh-Speed Rail Board OKs $1.36B Contract For Second Phase
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – The board that oversees California’s high-speed rail project has approved a $1.36 billion contract to design and build the second phase of the rail line in the Central Valley....
View ArticleHigh-Speed Rail Agency Behind Schedule In Buying Land
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – California’s $68 billion high-speed rail project is as much as a year behind schedule in buying the land needed to start construction, having purchased less than a quarter of...
View ArticleReport: California High-Speed Rail Train Fare Could Be A Bargain
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A newspaper analysis has found that the most recent estimate of the cost to ride California’s bullet train from Los Angeles to San Francisco is a bargain at $86. The Los Angeles...
View ArticleOpposition To California Bullet Train Picking Up Steam
SAN FERNANDO, Calif. (AP) – Opposition continues to mount in both wealthy and working-class communities against the California bullet train. Protesters in the city of San Fernando took over an open...
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