WASHINGTON Kudos to President Donald Trump for moving to cut off the spigot of federal funds for the California High-Speed Rail project during the first month of his second term. Transportation ...
At the behest of President Donald Trump, Secretary of Transportation Sean P. Duffy Thursday ordered a Federal Railroad ...
Transportation Secretary Duffy announces a review of California's high-speed rail project amid concerns about increased costs and delays. The FRA will evaluate the use of federal funds as the ...
Much needed to be done with that money. But California wanted to plow those tax dollars into environmental bragging rights.
The lawmakers asked why a risk-analysis assessment was not done for the Merced-to-Bakersfield arm of the project. A rendering shows a high-speed rail train as it enters a station during an ...
Gavin Newsom in 2019 announced that he would scale back the project, first focusing on completing the 171-mile stretch from Merced to Bakersfield. Today, that segment is estimated to cost $35 ...
Administration officials said the review is to help determine if $4 billion in taxpayer funds should still be committed to the section of the project connecting Merced to Bakersfield. According to ...
The entire San Francisco-to-Los Angeles project was initially supposed to be completed by 2020 for $33 billion, USDOT said, but the Merced-to-Bakersfield segment alone will cost more than the ...
The lawmakers asked why a risk-analysis assessment was not done for the Merced-to-Bakersfield arm of the project. In January, Newsom trumpeted the work already completed on the Central Valley port ...