Rail

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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Legislative committee gets an update: Emergency repairs are done, and now there will be more studying of the problems.

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More hurdles ahead for rail transit in FY24 after debt ceiling scare.

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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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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 […]

"Mississippi and Louisiana and conservative elected officials coming together and saying, ‘We don't want to miss this opportunity. This is our economic development. This is connecting my people.’ That's a story," said one supporter.

"We’ve got a get a handle on this as industry, and we've got to do it as soon as possible," one rail leader said.

Let's use this weekend's new rail extension opening to recall what we lost--and move full steam ahead with improving SMART

More trains, more frequency, more speed coming to California