Rep. Seth Moulton’s breezy cheerleading for California’s high-speed rail project in “America Should Travel Fast” (Letters, July 28) offers no persuasive reasons to persist in spending billions of ...

In 2019, California Governor Gavin Newsom used his first State of the State address to “level about the high-speed rail.” The Los Angeles-to-San Francisco project “would cost too much and, ...

Stephen Mattingly, a civil engineering professor at the University of Texas at Arlington, explains in this interview why high ...

HANFORD, Calif. — Hundreds of miles from Los Angeles and San Francisco, the first leg of California's high-speed rail line is rising above the almond trees and grape vines of the Central Valley. This ...

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The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is investigating the high-speed rail project after the Trump administration announced it was pulling billions in funding. California’s high-speed ...

High-speed rail systems are found all over the globe. Japan's bullet train began operating in 1964. China will have 31,000 ...

Amtrak’s brand new Acela trains enter service under a Trump administration that’s more selective in supporting transit projects It was sunny and temperate as Amtrak’s inaugural Acela Avelia Liberty ...

Amtrak launched a new, faster line of Acela trains on August 28. The NextGen Acela trains can reach a top speed of 160 mph, surpassing the previous fleet by 10 mph. In China, the Fuxing Hao trains ...

This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. Seventeen years ago, Californians bet on a grand vision of the future. They narrowly approved a $10 billion ...