By Joe Mathews, Contributing Columnist July 26, 2026 Gift Article (SFChronicle.com) A TGV high-speed train awaits passengers at the Casablanca railway station in Morocco.Andia/Andia/Universal Images Group via The automated English voice over the loudspeaker is polite and American-accented. “For your convenience, we invite you to make your phone calls from the platform… Continue reading
The Biden administration announced Friday the largest federal investment in passenger trains in decades, with $8.2 billion in new funding for high-speed rail and other projects nationwide. Why it matters: Rail travel is considered a relatively clean way to get lots of people from point A to B, especially compared with aviation — but… Continue reading
John King July 1, 2023 (SFChronicle.com) Unless you’re driving past the immense concrete columns rising along Central Valley roadways in communities like Fresno, the notion of high-speed rail coming to California can seem abstract. Out of sight, out of mind. But as construction of the first 119 miles lumbers forward in the… Continue reading
7 MAY 2023/SF NEWS/HOLLY SECON (SFist.com) Is that … a sign we might actually get some of the long-promised, never-delivered high-speed rail within the decade? A design studio contracted through the state of California released some new images of what some of the stations along the California high-speed rail could… Continue reading
