High Speed Rail

"This show of support from the Biden-Harris Administration is a vote of confidence in today’s vision and comes at a critical turning point, providing the project new momentum.”

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A long-fought high speed rail project may be coming back from the dead — and what happens next could be instructive for other communities hoping to someday run trains in highway-dominated states. 

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The answer is yes, with stronger cooperation and buy-in from state and federal leaders.

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There are more than thirty active construction sites on the HSR project in the Central Valley, including bridges, viaducts, and undercrossings, and close to that number of jobs have been completed.

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California leaders cannot continue giving equal weight to a proven technology that will improve rail service (catenary electric trains) and a wasteful experimental technology (hydrogen trains) that could lead to worse service and reliability than the status quo.

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Train geeks can dream: A new animation beautifully shows off what a through-track system at Union Station could look like.

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Former U.S. Secretary of Transportation and Congressional representative Ray LaHood penned an op-ed for CalMatters urging the federal government to “go big” and fund California’s High-Speed Rail Program. He points out that the amount the feds have invested in high-speed rail nationally so far – $10 billion – is minuscule compared to federal investments in […]

The dream of high-speed rail from the major cities of California to Las Vegas takes a step forward

"We're designing a rail line from scratch to reach high speeds for the first time ever in the U.S."