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Metro Expects to Finish Purple Line Extension Section One Tunneling This Week
Details emerge on Metro's herculean task of tunneling below Wilshire to extend the Purple Line subway.
March 24, 2021
National Bill Would Bring Billions for Bullet Train
The financial pathway for completing the entire Los Angeles/San Francisco route clarified with legislation from Fresno's Jim Costa
February 18, 2021
Feds Love Cali Bullet Train
Plus L.A. Times pens an especially absurd story claiming project will have only one track
February 11, 2021
Bay Area Wants More Rail
Second set of Transbay tubes? New lines joining Sacramento and San Francisco directly? Seems the sky is the limit under new plan.
January 29, 2021
Editorial: The Correlation Between Rail Opponents and the Insurrection
Aren't fascists supposed to like trains?
January 15, 2021
Can Shift in D.C. Get Trains into Transbay?
With Biden and Democrats in narrow control of the Senate, San Francisco is in a race to get cash for its next big transit project
January 13, 2021
Commentary: Bring Back the Night Train
Given the ongoing COVID crisis and our emissions woes, an overnight train between LA and San Francisco offers an alternative
December 21, 2020
Study: The U.S. Can Absolutely Afford to Build More Rail
The persistent myth that it just costs more to build train lines in the U.S. than it does abroad is mostly bunk, a new analysis finds — but costs quickly balloon when we start building them underground, for reasons that researchers can't yet fully explain.
December 18, 2020
Commentary: Electrify California’s Trains Now
We've got crews out stringing wire already. It's time to take it up a notch.
December 3, 2020
Metro Looks to Shift High Desert Freeway Funds to High-Speed Rail
The way L.A. is approaching the High Desert Corridor represents an important turning point: from prioritizing environmentally destructive car-centric transportation to environmentally-friendly rail transportation
August 19, 2020
