Almost all of them are in Western Europe or East Asia. The only high-speed rail in Africa is the Al-Boraq in Morocco. There is no high-speed rail in the Americas yet. Ordinary tracks cannot simply ...

California's high-speed rail project could grind to a halt in a month if it does not make up its $7 billion shortfall, California Legislative Analyst Office representative Helen Kerstein told ...

Last month, France’s national railway operator released a glimpse of the designs for its upcoming fifth-generation high-speed train, the TGV Inoui. (TGV stands for train à grande vitesse, or ...

They argue high-speed rail could interconnect the growing regions around Seattle, Portland and Vancouver, B.C., like no other form of transportation can. They bring a compelling vision but with it ...

Fresno and the San Joaquin Valley are at the epicenter of high-speed ... trains to operate at up to 220 mph and make a nonstop trip between downtown San Francisco and downtown Los Angeles in no ...

California’s oft-delayed and over budget high speed rail project will need billions ... according to local Sacramento news outlet KCRA3. “There is no specific plan to meet that roughly $7 ...

“We started this one, and we are not succeeding,” Choudri said, describing what drew him to the job after work on high-speed ... train would be up and running by 2020. Five years past that ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- California's embattled high-speed rail project needs a lot more money ... that's now expected to come out this summer. "We have no plan, we have a good likelihood it's going ...

And no, it’s not because Levy has a good memory ... it would have cost $117 billion—more than California’s project to build high-speed rail from scratch. And that was back in 2010.

Japan’s high-speed bullet trains are ... from catenary line to the train itself. A video provided by CCTV offers glimpses of the new CR450 design, but no clear shots of it reaching the speeds ...