Stephen Mattingly, a civil engineering professor at the University of Texas at Arlington, explains why high-speed rail projects in much of the country so often go off track. Dr. Stephen Mattingly ...

High-speed rail systems are found all over the globe. Japan’s bullet train began operating in 1964. China will have 31,000 miles (50,000 kilometers) of high-speed track by the end of 2025. The fastest ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Workers build an undercrossing for the high-speed rail line at a street in Tulare, Calif., on June 14, 2023. (Courtesy of ...

Steve Forbes breaks down why California’s endless high-speed rail boondoggle is even worse than people think, and why it needs to be scrapped—yesterday. California’s misbegotten high-speed train ...

Reporters stood by waiting to catch a glimpse of Japan's fast high-speed train on the new Chuo Shinkansen rail line, and if any of them blinked, they missed it. Those who stayed focused on the track ...

Infrastructure minister says the Newcastle-Sydney project will build on decades of work and planning – but experts ‘won’t be cutting any cakes until there’s shovels in the ground’ ...

WESTPORT — Real estate agents in rural areas near Kingston are preparing for a chill in an already softening housing market due to uncertainty surrounding the possible route for the Alto high-speed ...

At 186 miles per hour, the landscape starts to blur. A mile disappears every 20 seconds. An entire town can blink by in the time it takes to remember its name. High-speed trains are, as the name ...

Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin says a high-speed passenger rail line connecting Birmingham and Atlanta is not just a dream, but a possibility he believes is worth pursuing. In a Jan. 8 essay titled ...

Now layer on top that it is very possible people are going to lose their homes.” Many rural residents living within the study corridors for the proposed route are faced with the stress of not knowing ...