California’s high-speed rail project has not yet hit a high gear. Delays and cost overruns have hampered the endeavor since the start, and the project’s chief executive officer has announced another deadline
Today, U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg met with Amtrak and transit officials as well as front line transit and rail workers at Union Station, where he discussed the importance of the recently
Last week, one day after President Biden’s inauguration, Transportation Secretary-designate Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Ind., and presidential candidate during the Democratic primaries in 2020, appeared before the Senate
Brightline West is back on the drawing board. The high-speed rail line project between Apple Valley, Calif., and Las Vegas, which was paused late last year, is expected to break ground in
MOW union demanding more safety precautions at Union Pacific during pandemic, but judge rules it can’t strike Price of Sound Transit projects expand more than 50 percent ‘Beyond comprehension’: Contractor of California’s
A prime contractor on the San Francisco-to-Los Angeles high-speed rail construction project says progress on the bullet train continues to be slow and staggered, and to expect cost increases and delays to
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Transit Administration (FTA) today announced a total of $14 billion in Federal funding allocations to continue to support the Nation’s public transportation systems during the Coronavirus
Ridership might be down because of the pandemic, but new transit projects continue to be up across the U.S. The Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) is deciding on where it will put
Norfolk Southern issued another service alert today regarding the impact of Winter Storm Gail on its service territory in the northeast: “Winter Storm Gail is pushing through the far northeastern part of
Still in the testing-the-water phase, officials in Washington State, Oregon and British Columbia had another study to wet their appetite about a high-speed line that would zig-zag between the U.S. and Canada.
If Texas Central still plans on breaking ground on a high-speed rail project by the first half of 2021, some paperwork needs to be pushed through. The $20 billion project still needs
Update on 11/18/2020 RT&S ran this story one week ago today, which was Veterans Day in the U.S. and Remembrance Day in Canada. Since then, we’ve learned that the American Short Line
The California High-Speed Rail Authority has announced three new modified build alternatives have been added to the Palmdale to Burbank Project Section. The new routes will reduce potential impacts to sensitive aquatic
Brightline West high-speed rail project now put on hold Norfolk Southern suffers derailment that spilled coal into river U.S. DOT gives short line railroads a shot in the financial arm 2020 Election:
2020 is not the year for many things, and you can add Brightline West to the list. The high-speed rail line connecting southern California to Las Vegas was supposed to break ground
Brightline West high-speed rail construction expected to start soon, but work can still be scratched Train derails in Texas; railcars spill onto street Maryland lawmakers’ concerns about fate of Purple Line project
The California High-Speed Rail Authority announced the completion of Poso Creek Viaduct in Kern County, the first completed structure in the 22-mile segment of high-speed rail from the Tulare-Kern county line to
The high-speed line that will run from Las Vegas to southern California is coming to life these days. Brightline has released a construction schedule for the service, which will be called Brightline
A drone along Avenue 88 in Tulare County, Calif., shows crews placing 19 of the 20 girders needed to form the superstructure of the grade separation. The shortest girders were nearly 59
Indian River County knew its chances to be heard in front of the U.S. Supreme Court was slim, but a small group thought it was better than none. The county was in