Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The California High-Speed Rail Authority released an updated business plan on Aug. 22, 2025 that favors a Lancaster to Gilroy ...

Behind more than 70 million high-speed rail services a year lies a web of safety systems. At nearly 200 mph, even a single failure can have dramatic consequences.

The California High-Speed Rail Authority on Thursday announced a plan to accelerate the process of laying the first tracks on the state’s beleaguered infrastructure project. The Authority’s board of ...

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 ...

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy terminated $4 billion in unspent federal funding for California’s high-speed rail project Wednesday, citing around $15 billion spent without a single high-speed ...

The California High-Speed Rail Authority has opened a $3.5 billion bidding process for companies to build track and rail systems for its high-speed rail project. The agency in a press release ...

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 ...

The California High Speed Rail Authority, in an updated business plan released Friday morning, has signaled it is on track to start whisking passengers from Bakersfield to Merced as early as January ...