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The curse of America’s high-speed rail

If you’re traveling in America, there are plenty of ways to get to where you want to go. Interstate highways make road trips possible. Planes let you go from one side of the country to the other in a ...

High-speed rail has come to America. Or has it?

Amtrak’s new “NextGen Acela” trains have been billed as the dawn of high-speed rail in the US. Yet outdated tracks keep ...
Los Angeles Times

Letters to the Editor: High-speed rail project proved we can’t trust state’s estimates

To the editor: In 2008, the California High-Speed Rail Authority estimated that the state would have a high-speed rail line running from San Francisco to Los Angeles by 2020 at a cost of $33 billion.
Orange County Register

Walking away from the high-speed rail project would be best for taxpayers and the state

It has been nearly 17 years since voters approved California Proposition 1A, which allocated $10 billion to the California High-Speed Rail Authority to build a new high-speed rail line between Los ...