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 ...

It will go down as the most wasteful government project in California history.

Emmy Award-winning journalist Kris Van Cleave is the senior transportation correspondent for CBS News based in Phoenix, Arizona, where he also serves as a national correspondent reporting for all CBS ...

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 ...

HANFORD, Calif. — Hundreds of miles from Los Angeles and San Francisco, the first leg of California's high-speed rail line is rising above the almond trees and grape vines of the Central Valley. This ...

Ten years into a dream to connect Vancouver, B.C., Seattle and Portland via a high-speed rail line, stakeholders and backers of the mega-project said Wednesday that they’re still very much onboard — ...

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 ...

California mayors in the Central Valley aren’t happy with a plan to dip into local taxes and zoning for the state’s ...

A high-speed (HS) train line between London and Birmingham will be more expensive, take longer to make and go slower than ...