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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Workers build an undercrossing for the high-speed rail line at a street in Tulare, Calif., on June 14, 2023. (Courtesy 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 ...

Steve Forbes breaks down why California’s endless high-speed rail boondoggle is even worse than people think, and why it needs to be scrapped—yesterday. California’s misbegotten high-speed train ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom and California legislative leaders on Thursday announced a deal to fund the state’s beleaguered bullet train project with $1 billion annually from 2030 to 2045. The funds, should the ...

One of America's most iconic and beautiful train stations in LA is about to undergo a massive transformation that could redefine travel on the West Coast.

Ten years into a dream to connect Vancouver, B.C., Seattle and Portland via a high-speed rail line, stakeholders and backers of the mega-project said Wednesday that they’re still very much onboard — ...

Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin says a high-speed passenger rail line connecting Birmingham and Atlanta is not just a dream, but a possibility he believes is worth pursuing. In a Jan. 8 essay titled ...

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 ...

Now layer on top that it is very possible people are going to lose their homes.” Many rural residents living within the study corridors for the proposed route are faced with the stress of not knowing ...