Amtrak

We've got crews out stringing wire already. It's time to take it up a notch.

If parochial lawmakers succeed in seizing electrification money from California's HSR project, they stand to abort an entire industry

At Assembly Transportation Committee hearing, parochial discussions continue about transferring money to Southern California commuter rail

This summer, the author rode to the Midwest and back. It got her dreaming about high-speed rail.

More trains, more frequency, more speed coming to California

Capitol Corridor and BART are discussing building a second Transbay tube to carry trains from both systems

Japanese railway companies are profitable because of real estate, not just ticket sales. Can that model be emulated in the Bay Area?

Imagine if the Bay Area's 27 transit agencies took the same tickets, billed passengers by the same rate for distance traveled, and all the rail, bus, and ferry systems operated under a single brand as far as the rider was concerned.

Extending the Caltrain electrification project from San Jose to Gilroy, finishing the 119-mile Central Valley line spine of the system for interim rail service improvements by 2022, and pushing ahead with tunnel design and engineering in the Pacheco Pass--these were just a few of the goals outlined in the California High Speed Rail Authority's (CaHSRA) new draft business plan, released earlier this month.