Languages: English. A series of maps show the full extent of California's proposed high-speed rail routes that would provide an efficient and quick way of travel between the state's major cities.

The California High-Speed Rail Authority's board of directors approved the final environmental impact report last Thursday and selected a route for the Palmdale to Burbank section of the project.

In footage shown to Newsweek, the California High-Speed Rail Authority highlighted large stretches of underpass and routes ...

CALIFORNIA, USA — One of the state's most controversial projects is under scrutiny again. The High Speed Rail project is ...

Building high-speed rail between ... a history of derailing California’s high-speed rail While the milestone is the final environmental clearance needed for the route from downtown San Francisco ...

But tentative maps created back in 2011 envision two possible routes through the county ... being left out of the first phase of California’s high-speed rail construction, since it was here ...

is in the process of developing its own Brightline West privately operated high-speed rail route between Los Vegas and Southern California and will need its own fleet of trains. Amtrak is buying ...

‘Prove the haters wrong’: How one California community ... along the planned route, and First Free Will Baptist Church, which runs a school next to the high-speed rail. All reached settlements ...

America’s first experiment with high-speed ... California Association of Governments, the giant regional planning agency that helped build powerful support for the bullet train. The rail route ...

Work continues on the route between Madera and the Tulare-Kern county line with completion forecast in 2026. But California’s high-speed rail project faces difficult questions this year that ...

California high-speed rail ... communities and general inexperience with high-speed rail in the U.S. public sector. One early change to the initial route, designed to gain the support of a Los ...

Flynn Nicholls is a Newsweek reporter based in London, U.K. His focus is reporting on U.S. politics and society. Originally from New Zealand, Flynn joined Newsweek in 2024 and had previously ...