In 1999, Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones became the first to circumnavigate the world in a balloon. They reflect on their ...
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The estimated cost of California’s long‑troubled high‑speed rail project has soared past $120 billion. Politicians, including Gov. Gavin Newsom, have stated that voters initially approved $33 billion ...
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 ...
It's hard to exaggerate the role of the train in the American story or the romance of train travel, those iron horses galloping down tracks of steel. Why, then, has high-speed rail — so common in ...
Since August, train travelers between Washington, D.C., and Boston have been zipping along the country’s busiest rail line at speeds of up to 160 mph, the fastest in America. Headlines proclaimed high ...
High-speed rail, or train systems that are capable of speeds of at least 186 mph, simply doesn't exist in the United States. High-speed rail had its start in Japan in 1964 with the bullet train, and ...
The Golden State’s long-delayed high-speed rail project has completed construction on a massive 150-acre railhead facility in Kern County — a key logistical milestone that will allow track-laying to ...
If the field fails a safety test this summer, fall sports like football and soccer will need to find alternative locations. Officials are attempting to secure a contractor for a summer replacement, ...
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 ...
If you’d like to travel by bus from Bakersfield to Los Angeles Friday evening, you have two options. For $56.98, you can take a Greyhound bus that will get you there in two hours and forty minutes. Or ...