BARCELONA, Spain — Commuter rail service serving Barcelona and northeastern Spain has suffered major disruption because of the theft of copper cables from a train installation, Spanish rail authorities said Sunday. Thousands of commuters were stranded at train stations in and around Barcelona after trains couldn’t run on several commuter lines. The disruption to local […]
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Work is set to begin Monday on a $12 billion high-speed passenger rail line between Las Vegas and the Los Angeles area, with officials projecting millions of ticket-buyers will be boarding trains by 2028. Brightline West, whose sister company already operates a fast train between Miami and Orlando in Florida, aims […]
Democratic officials are throwing billions at California high-speed rail projects that have yet to be built, funding thousands of jobs specifically for union members. Despite funding initially being approved by a referendum in 2008, the California High-Speed Rail project currently has less than a quarter of its expected length under construction and was initially supposed […]
President Biden sparked a flurry of fact-checking from social media users when he claimed to have frequently commuted over Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge by train. The bridge, which collapsed Tuesday when it was struck by a container ship, didn’t have any rail lines. “At about 1:30 [a.m.], a container ship struck the Francis Scott […]
The CEO who has been running the high speed rail project in California since 2018 announced last week that he was stepping down. [Brian] Kelly inherited a massive project that had been bogged down by slow acquisition of property for the route through the central San Joaquin Valley and beset by schedule delays and cost […]
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