Rail
Funding for Rail Projects: An Incomplete Roundup
Various federal, state, and local funding sources are lining up.
Metro to Restore and Increase Light Rail Service on December 10
Metro A and E Line light rail peak hour frequency will increase to every 8 minutes from every 10 minutes and add more midday, weekend, and late night trains on A, C, E, and K Lines
Commentary: It’s Time to Talk Again About Driverless Trains
And the place to start is in the yards
Opinion: How to Decide Between Light Rail and Bus Rapid Transit
What style of transit makes the most sense in a COVID-era world?
What Will It Take to Build a Bullet Train in Texas?
A long-fought high speed rail project may be coming back from the dead — and what happens next could be instructive for other communities hoping to someday run trains in highway-dominated states.
What Is to Become of Southern California’s Coastal Rail Corridor?
Legislative committee gets an update: Emergency repairs are done, and now there will be more studying of the problems.
Transit Master Class: Learning from Switzerland
A delegation of advocates and Bay Area transit officials spent a week in Switzerland learning how one of the world's best transit and rail systems works.
GOP Seeks Massive Cuts to Amtrak
More hurdles ahead for rail transit in FY24 after debt ceiling scare.
California Needs Leadership on Electric Rail
California leaders cannot continue giving equal weight to a proven technology that will improve rail service (catenary electric trains) and a wasteful experimental technology (hydrogen trains) that could lead to worse service and reliability than the status quo.
