Jim Hartnett: High Speed Rail is needed, and new plan is practical
San Jose Mercury News - 15 hours ago
The latest draft high-speed rail business plan "lays out a sensible and politically feasible strategy for building the line in segments," according to the Los Angeles Times. The Fresno Bee, supporting the business plan as "much more ...
Report: Tunnel for bullet train through San Jose impractical
San Jose Mercury News - 15 hours ago
Concepts of a station and track alignment for high-speed rail at the Diridon site in downtown San Jose. (California High Speed Rail Authority and Newlands & Company, Inc (NC3D)) Add one more to the ever-expanding list of problems facing ...
David Cameron faces new battle with the high-speed rail rebels
Daily Mail - Nov 13, 2011
David Cameron is bracing himself for a further revolt among Tory MPs when the route for the £34billion High Speed Rail link between London and Birmingham is announced next month. The connection, which will be built between 2016 and ...
California's high-speed rail system is going nowhere fast
Washington Post - Nov 13, 2011
THINGS JUST WENT from bad to worse for high-speed passenger rail in California. After the Golden State's voters approved a $9 billion bullet-train bond issue in 2008, officials said they could build an 800-mile system by 2020, for $35.7 billion. ...
Number of fast railways 'to double'
The Press Association - Nov 13, 2011
As the Government decides whether to go ahead with the HS2 high-speed rail project, the number of countries expected to run fast-train services is expected to nearly double over the next few years. By 2014, high-speed trains are expected to operate in ...
David Cameron faces new revolt over high-speed rail
Telegraph.co.uk - Nov 12, 2011
David Cameron is braced for a fresh Tory rebellion – and possible ministerial resignations – when the final route of the £34 billion High Speed Rail link between London and Birmingham is confirmed within weeks. By Patrick Hennessy, Political Editor ...
High Speed Rail Authority recommends no tunnels in San Jose
1590 KLIV Silicon Valley News - 1 hour ago
The California High Speed Rail Authority has recommended that there should be no tunnels in San Jose for the high-speed rail line. On last night's Town Hall Meeting, Mayor Chuck Reed says the report cited poor soil quality and high water tables as the ...
Is HSR's valley phase a model of good value?
Bakersfield Californian - 2 hours ago
Assemblywoman Shannon Grove, R-Bakersfield, announced last week that she intends to co-author legislation giving the state's voters the chance to reassess the 2008 bond measure that launched California High Speed Rail. Her concern is understandable. ...
Kings Co. Sues to Ban HSR
KMJ Now - 3 hours ago
The county and two residents filed suit in Sacramento Superior Court claiming there isn't nearly enough money to finish the project and that violates the intentions of voters who passed Prop 1A. The law requires money be spent for an electric train but ...
Kings Co. sues high-speed rail authority
Fresno Bee - 11 hours ago
Kings County and two of its residents filed a lawsuit against the California High Speed Rail Authority, stating that its plan for the central San Joaquin Valley portion of the rail line violates sections of Proposition ...
Judge rejects high-speed rail route through Gilroy
Gilroy Dispatch - 14 hours ago
A Sacramento Superior Court judge ruled Thursday the California High-Speed Rail Authority must omit plans to send the bullet train through Gilroy and up the San Francisco Peninsula until further studies examining the project's impact on ...
New Cost of California Bullet Train Causes Concern
The Bottom Line - 14 hours ago
The project to build a high-speed bullet train from Southern California to the Bay Area is estimated to be completed in 2033 with a cost of $98.5 billion, changed from an initial estimate of being completed by 2020 with a $43 billion cost. ...
High-Speed Rail Expands Everywhere (Except The U.S.)
Care2.com (blog) - 15 hours ago
The number of countries offering high speed trains is expected to nearly double over the next few years, according to new research by the Worldwatch Institute for Vital Signs Online. “The rise in HSR has been very rapid,” said ...
Rail advocates, critics to face off in Palo Alto
Palo Alto Online - 15 hours ago
Top officials from the California High-Speed Rail Authority will join some of the rail project's toughest critics in Palo Alto Tuesday afternoon for a public discussion of the controversial, voter-approved rail line. ...
High-Speed Rail Showdown Tomorrow
Patch.com - 17 hours ago
California's high speed rail faces trouble in Palo Alto—and in Washington. High Speed Rail Authority The principal critics of California's high-speed rail plan will come face-to-face tomorrow night with the project's leadership at ...
Good Case For High-Speed Rail, Says MPs' Report
The Epoch Times - 19 hours ago
Two high-speed trains are parked on a platform in a station in Paris. The proposed HS2 rail link would cut journey times from Leeds to Paris down to just 4 hours. (Jacques Demarthon/AFP/Getty Images) There is a “good case” for a ...
Council to weigh liability claim options, high-speed rail
Hanford Sentinel - 22 hours ago
The Hanford City Council will reopen the discussion on whether to change the way the city handles liability claims during Tuesday's meeting, picking up where ...
Public will get HSR updates
Hanford Sentinel - 22 hours ago
The public may be about to get regular updates on the high-speed rail project slated to run through hostile territory in Kings County at Board of Supervisors' ...
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