Tag: high-speed rail

September 14, 2021

The U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee recently introduced legislation creating $10 billion in competitive grants for public transit, a bill supported by the American Public Transportation Association (APTA). Under the bill, the grants for public transit would enhance mobility […]

April 20, 2021

Twelve Republican members of the House of Representatives recently sent a letter to Pete Buttigieg, Department of Transportation (DOT) secretary, expressing concern over federal funding for California’s high speed rail project. The project, a line between Los Angeles and San […]

June 16, 2020

Highway, transit and rail watchers, strap in for a long Wednesday. The House Transportation Committee is marking up its surface transportation bill and will consider hundreds of amendments that have been introduced so far this week. As of our deadline, […]

March 5, 2019

DEADLINE DAY: Today’s the day FRA said it will terminate an agreement with California, paving the way to cancel nearly a billion dollars in funding for the state’s high-speed rail project. What exactly will happen today (and what it means […]

February 8, 2019

— House lawmakers took the first public step toward an infrastructure package with a hearing that lasted more than six hours and featured optimism, worry and an appearance from former Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood. — The Green New Deal stirred […]

July 14, 2017

Hyperloop One announced the successful completion of the world’s first full systems Hyperloop test in a vacuum environment. This test was Phase 1 of a multi-Phase program and was privately conducted on May 12, 2017 at the company’s test track, “DevLoop,” […]

March 9, 2017

Hyperloop One released never-before-seen images of its development site (‘DevLoop’) in the Nevada desert at Middle East Rail, held in Dubai. Providing the international keynote address at the 11th annual conference, CEO of Hyperloop One, Rob Lloyd, shared a bird’s-eye […]

February 16, 2017

Following up on plan floated by a private organization last year to build a high-speed rail train connecting Vancouver, Seattle, and Portland, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee has set aside $1 million in his new state budget to study if that […]