On 10 May 1869, history was hammered into the ground in Promontory, Utah. Shortly after noon on a sunny spring day, hundreds of onlookers gathered in a tent city, hastily constructed in the ...

With high-speed rail ambitions in California delayed by years and coming in at a higher-than-expected cost, Lou Thompson, who sat on the state's high-speed rail peer review group, said "failure is ...

Gavin Newsom likes to boast that California has the world’s fourth-largest economy. So why can’t it build high-speed rail, while Morocco — which ranks 57th — has had it for years? “The California High ...