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60 Minutes tackles California’s $125 billion high-speed train to nowhere: 'A complete bait and switch'

Jon Wertheim asks why California's planned LA-to-San Francisco train has been derailed for 18 years and how it's budget still ballooned by $90 billion The post 60 Minutes Tackles California’s $125 ...
NPR

With federal money in doubt, California's high-speed train seeks a new path forward

HANFORD, Calif. — Hundreds of miles from Los Angeles and San Francisco, the first leg of California's high-speed rail line is rising above the almond trees and grape vines of the Central Valley. This ...
Forbes

How AI Data Centers Could Save California High-Speed Rail

With the clawing back of $4 billion in federal grants to support it, the Trump Administration seems hell bent on ensuring that California’s high-speed rail project ends up as precisely the “train to ...
The Conversation

High‑speed rail moves millions throughout the world every day – but in the US, high cost and low use make its future bumpy

The Amtrak NextGen Acela is a new, higher-speed train that runs between Washington, D.C. and Boston. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images Stephen Mattingly, a civil engineering professor at the University ...
SlashGear

California's High-Speed Rail Just Took A Huge Leap Forward Towards Completion

High-speed rail, or train systems that are capable of speeds of at least 186 mph, simply doesn't exist in the United States. High-speed rail had its start in Japan in 1964 with the bullet train, and ...