State high-speed rail planners yesterday recommended a hybrid route that follows portions of two major railroad corridors for the line between Fresno and Merced. Officials for the California High-Speed Rail Authority said the route will be cheaper to build, and disrupt fewer businesses, than a... + read more

WASHINGTON – The French firm that may want a piece of California's high-speed rail project would face costly and embarrassing lawsuits from Holocaust survivors under a bill now trying to gain steam on Capitol Hill. The bill would expose the state-owned rail giant SNCF to lawsuits... + read more

  Although planners of California’s bullet train won praise last week for candor about the train’s cost, an analysis of their 230-page plan shows they are still making highly speculative assumptions about funding and ridership.  Despite hostility toward the project... + read more

Building California’s high-speed rail project could cost $98.5 billion over 20 years, more than twice what was previously thought, according to a draft copy of a business plan obtained late Monday by a media partnership covering the project. The amount is still far less than the cost of... + read more