High Speed Rail

Biden Admin Gives Millions To High-Speed Rail Project That Has Been Stalled For Years

The Biden administration granted over $60 million to Amtrak for a stalled Texas high-speed rail project that is failing to…

7 months ago

Building A Few Miles Of California Railway Currently Projected To Cost More Than NASA Mars Mission

A project to extend a California railway by six miles may end up costing more than a National Aeronautics and…

11 months ago

California’s High-Speed Rail Isn’t Built, But It Is Putting Money In Unions’ Coffers

Democratic officials are throwing billions at California high-speed rail projects that have yet to be built, funding thousands of jobs…

12 months ago

America’s Obsolete Infrastructure Could Derail Biden’s High-Speed Rail Dreams

America’s dated railway infrastructure could disrupt President Joe Biden’s hopes for high-speed rail to become a “game-changing” opportunity to reduce…

2 years ago

Foreign Railway Company Decided Not To Build In California Because It’s More ‘Politically Dysfunctional’ Than Morocco

A French state-owned railway company tried to build a high-speed railway in California but abandoned the project in 2011 and…

3 years ago

Failed Obama Rail Project Collapses, Nigeria Purchases Unused Trains

A Nigerian city purchased two trains intended for a high-speed rail line in Wisconsin more than a decade after the…

3 years ago

Biden Administration Restores $1 Billion For California’s ‘Train To Nowhere’

The federal government restored $1 billion in funding for California’s much-criticized bullet train project that critics have dubbed the “train…

4 years ago

Trump Strips California Of $930 Million In High-Speed Rail Funding

The Trump administration will terminate its agreement with California to fund the state’s struggling high-speed rail project, the Federal Railroad…

6 years ago

Trump administration cancels $929 million for CA high-speed rail, seeks return of $2.5 billion already invested [full text of letter]

The U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) announced today that the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) intends to cancel $929 million in…

6 years ago

Green Means Stop – A.F. Branco Cartoon

High-speed rail projects are collapsing across the country, as the Green New Deal is asking for more rail projects and…

6 years ago

Trump Admin Weighs Risk To ‘Significant Federal Funds’ Tied Up In California’s Bullet Train

The Trump administration is weighing the risk to a “significant” amount of federal funds tied up in California’s high-speed rail…

6 years ago

Bait-and-switch and Sunk Cost Fallacy: Newsom tricking taxpayers out of more money for high-speed rail

California Governor Newsome made statements Tuesday indicating that the full high-speed train line between Sacramento and San Diego "would cost…

6 years ago

California Gov Ditches High Speed Rail Project, Cites Hefty Price Tag

California Gov. Gavin Newsom abandoned a high speed rail project Tuesday that sought to connect Los Angeles to San Francisco.…

6 years ago

WTF – High Speed Rail to Nowhere

Winning The Future, anyone remember that one? That was President Obama's scheme to rebuild the American economy on among other…

13 years ago

California’s High Speed Folly

More news of the stimulus's failure emerged this week with CBO's report citing how it may have cost $4.1 million…

13 years ago