High-speed rail systems are found all over the globe. Japan’s bullet train began operating in 1964. China will have 31,000 miles (50,000 kilometers) of high-speed track by the end of 2025. The fastest ...

Stephen Mattingly, a civil engineering professor at the University of Texas at Arlington, explains why high-speed rail projects in much of the country so often go off track. Dr. Stephen Mattingly ...

Xavier Becerra said he will “scrap the current configuration” of the project to ensure it’s completed on time and on budget.

California's dream of building a high-speed rail system linking San Francisco and LA is a cautionary tale of ambition outpacing funding, planning, and federal support. Reading time 9 minutes Seventeen ...

Emmy Award-winning journalist Kris Van Cleave is the senior transportation correspondent for CBS News based in Phoenix, Arizona, where he also serves as a national correspondent reporting for all CBS ...

The California high-speed rail system’s price tag continues to grow, even though there is little hope that Californians will get anything close to what they were promised.

At 186 miles per hour, the landscape starts to blur. A mile disappears every 20 seconds. An entire town can blink by in the time it takes to remember its name. High-speed trains are, as the name ...

California mayors in the Central Valley aren’t happy with a plan to dip into local taxes and zoning for the state’s long-delayed high speed rail projects — saying they’ll sue the state if it goes ...

Ottawa-based campaign meant to garner support for high-speed rail proposal in eastern Ontario. On a website and linked social ...