MORE ON: high-speed rail

The California High-Speed Rail Authority proposes to build 520 miles of tracks between San Francisco and Los Angeles, via the central San Joaquin Valley, for all-electric passenger trains capable of traveling up to 220 mph. The cost is estimated at about $98 billion. + read more

The chief administrator of California’s high-speed rail project, who endured withering criticism of the project under his watch, announced his resignation yesterday. Roelof van Ark’s departure comes as Gov. Jerry Brown, exerting increasing influence over the project, prepares to... + read more

If construction of California’s high-speed rail project begins this year in the central San Joaquin Valley, employment advocates want to make sure it provides jobs for unemployed workers in the economically ravaged region. Since September, the Fresno Workforce Investment Board has... + read more

Since the recession began, the state Legislature has put some big-ticket construction projects on the environmental fast track in the name of creating jobs. At the behest of then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, lawmakers agreed in 2009 to exempt 10 multimillion-dollar highway construction projects... + read more

MERCED – Perhaps no project in California needs an image lift more than high-speed rail. But after trying for five months to hire a public relations company to help with that effort, state rail officials elected yesterday to go without, at least temporarily. California High-Speed... + read more

WASHINGTON – The House passed a spending bill today that kills high-speed rail funding for the current fiscal year. The Senate is expected to follow suit, which means California should not expect the billions of dollars in federal aid on which its futuristic plan for bullet trains depends.... + read more