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The Brightline West team says it's nearing the construction phase of the high-speed rail line linking SoCal and Las Vegas.
High Speed Rail in the USA has so far been limited to the Acela corridor in the northeast, which some would argue still doesn't meet the standard of true high speed rail. In a previous video we ...
The White House hopes to jumpstart high-speed rail in the U.S. with money from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. Much of the funding announced this week will go to projects in Nevada and California.
Fort Worth City Council members approved an agreement with Arlington for an economic analysis of the proposed bullet train.
Efforts to build high-speed rail could slow down under Trump. The Trump administration is moving to pull back some promised federal funding from high-speed rail projects in California and Texas.
For Central Valley residents, high-speed rail will be a reality in just a few years. Construction of the rail line is transforming local economies, and residents say they see a broad new horizon ...
The White House hopes to jumpstart high-speed rail in the U.S. with money from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. Much of the funding announced this week will go to projects in Nevada and California.
Trump, who earlier this year lamented that the U.S. doesn’t have high-speed rail, clawed back a $929-million Obama-era grant in 2019. The Biden administration restored that funding and last year ...
California got nearly $7B from feds for high-speed rail — but never laid any track, bombshell report shows By . Josh Christenson. Published June 4, 2025. Updated June 4, 2025, 1:49 p.m. ET.
When the California High-Speed Rail Authority issued its new 2022 draft business plan in February, it estimated an ultimate cost as high as $105 billion. Less than three months later, the “final ...
Newly constructed pillars near Fresno, Calif., part of the state's high-speed train project, in July 2021. (Melina Mara/The Washington Post) Amtrak TV commercials used to depict trains winding ...
House Bill 663, filed by Rep. Brian Harrison (R-Waxahachie), aims to strip Texas Central, the private company behind the Dallas-to-Houston high-speed rail project, of its eminent domain authority ...