Even the Feds are Warning that California's Bullet Train Is a Disaster in the Making
When even the experts in boondoggles are worried…
When even the experts in boondoggles are worried…
The big purchase is a good metaphor for the state of high speed rail in America right now, where politically driven promises can't overcome hard reality.
He sounds like Calif. Gov. Jerry Brown.
The world's best Kmele Foster-hosted libertarian podcast also discusses high-speed rail and doing mushrooms
New revelations are just the latest to demonstrate a point Reason has been documenting since 2008
Judge rules the $64 billion megaproject doesn't violate bond act.
New route ditches Los Angeles for the Bay Area and potentially violates state law.
Warns $15-an-hour jump would wreck state budgeting.
Company planning an early test in Nevada soon.
Concealed report: Overruns, delays plague high-speed rail
The bullet train mess is unspooling pretty much exactly how critics predicted.
Did they run out of overpriced, unnecessary projects in their own country?
Two tech companies offer services to develop prototype.
Can he really build a supersonic tube transport system, which could go from LA to San Francisco in 35 minutes?
Can he really build a supersonic tube transport system, which could go from LA to San Francisco in 35 minutes?
Can he really build a supersonic tube transport system, which could go from LA to San Francisco in 35 minutes?
The $68 billion high-speed boondoggle may not comply with its legal promise.
California's lieutenant governor no longer wishes to ride the rails
Another ballot initiative is filed in Sacramento
Since industry won't invest in project, let's make them pay to do business in the state and use that money instead
Even though they don't have money to build it yet
Not until the environmental work is completed
State ordered to redo funding plan before spending any state bond money
State not allowed to spend bond money until the plan comes into compliance with authorizing ballot initiative
Protesters angry about high-speed rail construction
State argues that trains that aren't even built yet can't be stopped
Been more than a year since project was supposed to begin
California's recovery is a miracle. Somebody go tell San Bernardino and Stockton.
Rail supporters in California keep chugging ahead despite a court rebuke.
"You're not following your own rules" apparently means "There's some wiggle room here"
Judge didn't specifically order them to stop yet, so on it goes
More information requested before he decides whether to essentially kill it
Introducing the Hyperloop, which is not the name of a power-up in a kart-racing video game
Federal loan for high-stakes gamble on train tourism will not be considered
From more federal bureaucracy, to possible obstruction from freight rail company, to accusations of secret bidding rule changes
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