It’s hard to exaggerate the role of the train in the American story or the romance of train travel, those iron horses galloping down tracks of steel. Why, then, has high-speed rail — so common in other countries — not tracked in the U.S.? An ambitious state-run project connecting L.A. and San Francisco has lurched, … Read more
With high-speed rail ambitions in California delayed by years and coming in at a higher-than-expected cost, Lou Thompson, who sat on the state’s high-speed rail peer review group, said “failure is always an option.” He doesn’t think failure is what will necessarily happen in California, but earlier ambitions have been scaled back. When California voters … Read more
High-speed rail can be found around the world. Yet so far, the projects haven’t tracked in the U.S., where both the public and private sectors have faced ballooning costs and delays. Source link
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