What California got wrong and Florida got right with high-speed rail
It’s the worst managed project I think I’ve ever seen,” Donald Trump said last week. “I built for a living and I built on time — on budget. ... It’s impossible that something could cost that much.”
California high speed rail has $4.3B in unspent federal grants. Could Trump take it away?
What’s needed for San Francisco to LA to happen is we’re going to need the federal partner to say, ‘Get that done.’”
Trump pledges to investigate California high-speed rail. Is it actually over budget?
Trump and one of his key advisors, technology billionaire Elon Musk, have both been highly critical of the California High-Speed Rail Authority and its planned bullet-train project to connect Los Angeles and San Francisco by way of Fresno and the San Joaquin Valley.
Trump has California’s high-speed rail in his crosshairs again
DOGE certainly has high-speed rail in its crosshairs. Before DOGE co-chair Vivek Ramaswamy stepped down to pursue a run for governor of Ohio, he called high-speed rail “a wasteful vanity project, burning billions in taxpayer cash, with little prospect for completion in the next decade… Time to end the waste.”
Inspector General and President Trump deal new setbacks to high-speed rail boondoggle
Given the project’s track record of delays and the likelihood that high-speed rail will lose money from operations in the Central Valley, why would any private investor step up?
Trump Wants A Probe Into California's High-Speed Rail—Says The Budget Overruns Could Have Bought 'Finest Limousine Service' For Everyone
President Donald Trump is once again targeting California’s high-speed rail project, calling it the “worst-managed project” he’s ever seen and demanding an investigation into its massive cost overruns.
NC seeks assurance from Trump administration that high-speed train project is still a go
A year after awarding $1.1 billion for the first leg of the Raleigh-to-Richmond rail corridor, the U.S. Department of ...
New high-speed train will link two major European cities in just 3 hours
From the Eurostar to a new high-speed rail service that connects Paris to Turin (Milan), it’s easy to travel around Europe ...
China unveils the world’s fastest high-speed train with a top speed of 280 mph
China recently unveiled a new bullet train prototype with a test speed of 280 mph that is poised to break records and set new ...
1 dead and 25 injured after a high-speed train and a truck collide in Germany
Police say a collision between a high-speed train and a truck on the outskirts of the German city of Hamburg has left one ...
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NDOT expects Las Vegas-to-LA high-speed train construction to begin within 2 months
State transportation officials were told on Monday that construction on the Las Vegas-to-Los Angeles high-speed train should ...
Driver ditches SUV moments before high-speed train collision
Surveillance video captured the moment a driver jumped out of an SUV seconds before a train smashed into it in Layton, Utah.
Planning a Train Trip in Europe? New Sleeper Trains and High-Speed Routes Await.
European passenger rail travel continues to expand, with a flurry of new routes opening and competition heating up on key ...
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High-Speed Rail Announces Completion of Fargo Avenue Overcrossing in Kings County
February 10, 2025 - KINGS COUNTY, Calif. – The California High-Speed Rail Authority (Authority) is kicking off the new year ...