Three Fresno City Council members say they want immediate answers to more than two dozen questions about the potential effects of California’s proposed high-speed trains on businesses and tax revenues in the city. In a letter sent yesterday to the California High-Speed Rail Authority,... + read more

Construction of a high-speed train line in the central San Joaquin Valley was supposed to start late this year. Now, officials say, it’s not likely to start until early 2013, even if state legislators approve billions in bond money this spring. At its meeting tomorrow in Sacramento, the... + read more

SAN FRANCISCO – The overhaul of California’s high-speed rail project could bring the Bay Area $1 billion to electrify Caltrain and lay the path for bullet train service between San Francisco and San Jose sooner than anticipated. The San Francisco Chronicle has learned that... + read more

Fourteen construction companies are on the short list of firms poised to bid for contracts to begin building California’s high-speed rail system in the Fresno area later this year. The list was revealed by California High-Speed Rail Authority CEO Roelof van Ark at the authority board... + read more