A massive dose of federal funding in the coming years could save California’s high-speed rail line. However, that injection has not been made available yet, and may never get congressional approval.
The California High-Speed Rail Authority has been plagued with construction delays for several years.
The California High-Speed Rail Authority board of directors adopted the revised 2020 business plan [this week].
Earlier this week, the California High-Speed Rail Authority (Authority) released its March 2021 Construction Update highlighting ongoing progress on the nation’s first high-speed rail project.
Dealing with an environmentally sensitive area, California’s high-speed rail project is polluting its budget.
The top news stories RT&S was covering the week ending Feb. 12.
The California High-Speed Rail Authority’s money problem appears to be getting worse.
While the California high-speed rail project has suffered from ups and downs over the past few years, the project got a psychological boost today from the Acting Federal Railroad Administrator Amit Bose.
The California High-Speed Rail Authority and design-build contractor California Rail Builders announced the completion of the Garces Highway Viaduct, north of the city of Wasco in Kern County. The viaduct, which will
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 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
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
The city of Palo Alto, Calif., wants to rule on grade separation alternatives before the years is over, but Caltrain and the California High-Speed Rail Authority (CHSRA) are getting in the way.
Railway Track & Structures’ Editor-in-Chief Bill Wilson talks to William Ibbs, a professor of civil engineering at the University of California at Berkeley, to get a feel for how the QC/QA process
The California High-Speed Rail Authority (CHSRA) issued a Revised Notice of Preparation (NOP) under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), and a Revised Notice of Intent (NOI) under the National Environmental Policy
Ed. Note: Last week, RT&S ran a news story on the severe problems the California High-Speed Rail Authority has been having with a vehicular traffic bridge that crosses the CHSRA right-of-way and
A bridge built to carry vehicle traffic over the right-of-way of California’s high-speed rail line and BNSF’s main line has suffered from contractor errors and other mistakes, bringing work on the bridge
The California High-Speed Rail Authority has released a time-lapse video showing the first phase of placing girders at the Wasco Viaduct. Each of the girders are 18 ft long and weight 165,000
We have three great videos to show tonight. The first is a flyover update on the Eglinton Crosstown project in Toronto, Canada. The next video shows a time lapse of night and
The California High-Speed Rail Authority has just released a new video showing construction of a high-speed rail structure in Kern County, Calif. Upon completion, the structure will span nearly 240 ft in
