An $18 billion high-speed rail system, built by a Japanese company, could transform transportation in the Lone Star State. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump points to a supporter as stage lights color the dance floor after a rally in the South Side Ballroom at Gilley’s in Dallas, June 16, 2016.
Category: California High-Speed Rail
Charles Lane:
The American people support more federal spending on infrastructure such as roads, buildings and waterways – 75 percent are in favor, according to a year-old Gallup poll. And so President Donald Trump’s call for a 10-year, $1 trillion “national rebuilding” plan was one of the few parts of his address to Congress on Tuesday that might have been the same if Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders had won in November.
California high-speed rail ready to lay some track
After years of prep work, Gov. Jerry Brown’s finance department decided Friday that California’s $64 billion high-speed rail project is ready to lay some track. The administration approved the rail authority’s request to spend $2.6 billion on work in the Central Valley.