Since becoming its CEO last year, Ian Choudri has made changes at California's High-Speed Rail Authority. He reorganized agency leadership, brought in experts from the U.S. military and the private ...

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One country where you cannot ride a train traveling more than 180 mph is the United States. California is trying to change that. But the state's ambitious high-speed rail project faces an uncertain ...

Two months after the California High-Speed Rail Authority sued the Trump administration over its cancellation of $4 billion of federal grants, little has happened on the legal front. And, if ...

California is looking for new ways to finance its high-speed rail project following the Trump administration's decision to pull billions of dollars in federal funds from the project. Transportation ...

Steve Forbes breaks down why California’s endless high-speed rail boondoggle is even worse than people think, and why it needs to be scrapped—yesterday. California’s misbegotten high-speed train ...

California’s long-embattled bullet train faces another dilemma. A new report released Friday by the California High-Speed Rail Authority warns that the scaled-down Central Valley segment — the only ...

LA legislator seeks to remove $500M spending cap on work outside Central Valley route. Change aims to attract private investors to accelerate and expand high-speed rail. Bill is one of several ...

A closer look at Alto shows the project is too expensive for the problem it solves – and is a diversion from fixing the ...

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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 ...